Its no wonder little guys like Cliven Bundy (160 acres of land)...
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Yep owns only 1/4 of a section in fee and runs 1,000 +/-
cattle on public lands which he hasn’t paid lease fees for
some time now.
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You’re one of those, huh?
You need to study history.
The US government doesn’t own the surface rights on any arable land in the Guadalupe Hidalgo treaty states. It is all privately owned. The government only owns the underlying fee title.
They do not have the right under the treaty to collect rents for grazing.
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His contention is that its locally owned land and he’s sent the eight thousand dollars owed over the years to Clark County, Nevada which they have refused.