The entire allotment is about 56 percent privately owned. . the BLM ordered grazing closures .
Instead of battling the decision in court, Grant Gerber suggested the effected families alert representatives in power, and along the way, the populous at large.
The ride, dubbed the Grass March, was modeled after Mahatma Gandhi’s Salt March. Gerber and his son rode from Elko to Carson City to draw attention to the situation while calling for the Battle Mountain BLM district manager’s ouster.
Gerber organized another horse ride across the country. The Grass March/Cowboy Express began in September from Bodega Bay, California, and covered more than 2,800 miles before riders reached Washington, D.C., with satchels of petitions calling for relief from the federal government in various land disagreements.
In was on this ride that Gerber hit his head in a horse fall. He completed the journey but died in a hospital following surgery
I would like to see BLM lands at the very least returned to the states... but my greatest wish would be to see those lands privatized with lease-holders having first bid on the lands they currently lease. The rest should be sold off, maybe by lottery, to private citizens, US citizens.
Aside from office buildings and military bases, there is no reason for the federal government to control vast swaths of land. BLM should be disbanded. Maybe the field agents could be transferred to Border Patrol.