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I'd love to help legally but I'm dumb as rocks when it comes to law. All I can do is ask questions and hope some of them make sense. I did find the below article on ReWire, and they say it's the state of Nevada that owns the grazing rights, and has since 1998. So how is Bundy supposed to pay BLM? 1998 to 2014 is not 20 years so the BLM is exaggerating about that off the bat.

enviroweenies sued the BLM to ‘protect the tortoise’ on Gold Butte, setting the BLM into action. But maybe their suit is invalid, since it's pretty much proven science now, even if it wasn't in 1998, that tortoises need cattle to thrive and so the BLM would no longer worry about enviroweenies suing them to act.

http://www.kcet.org/news/rewire/commentary/sorting-fact-from-fiction-on-chinese-solar-in-nevada.html

“... in 1998. That permit was bought by Clark County shortly thereafter and retired, as part of a mitigation arrangement allowing the county to develop desert tortoise habitat closer to the burgeoning city of Las Vegas.

Though environmental groups urged, and then sued, the BLM to evict Bundy’s illegal cattle from Gold Butte... it took until 2012 for the BLM to act...”

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this article says “Clark County Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan purchased and then retired grazing leases to protect the endangered tortoise.” Is that a Clark County agency?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3144467/posts