He tried to pay Clark county grazing fees, saying he doesn’t recognize the right of the Federal gov’t to charge Nevadans for land usage was they have owned for over a hundred years. The Feds claim they are just trying to sa e tortoises.
If you like the federal gov’t owning 82 percent of the land in your state, maybe you should find someplace where the gov’t owns 100 percent. It would be utopia where their is no pesky private property laws.
But the facts showed he was grazing on public lands and he did not, nor did his family have the century of claims. These were not true. It was a story that sounded good until the details came out and at the end of the day he was a kook that wanted to not recognize the federal govern while freeloading on federal lands.