Another piece of this mess is the UN Agenda 21 and the rewilding of America efforts.
Many red ecos want to remove the ranchers and farmers from their homesteads. Killing the livestock helps their agenda as the family ranchers then have a cash flow / bank loan problem that can lead to foreclosures.
Getting historical federal grazing allotments vacated is another trick to bankrupt the family ranchers.
I am very familiar with BLM conflict vs Nevada ranchers, Wayne Hage and Ben Colvin.