If you don’t think saying ‘this is my land, you must enter into a contract and pay a fee to graze on it’ is asserting a claim to ownership of property, then we’ll have to respectfully agree to disagree.
As you said, the 1993 change capped Bundy’s herd at 150 cattle on the Bunkeville allotment. That made Bundy’s approved usage of the land much less valuable, but not “worthless to him.” The 1998 ‘no-graze’ declaration made the land worthless to him.
if one has 5x cows on a property and the gub'ment sez now you are only allowed 1x cows you must now put the other 4x cows someplace else. Now understand this is open land so let us say you can put the cows on property next to the range in question. Cows wander because its open land so the gub'ment can claim you broke the rules you now have 1.01X cows on the land when bessie wandered over an imaginary property line etc.
However if the you put the 4x cows on another piece of land that is not adjacent then you now must split your efforts to maintain the cows at two different areas. Which increases your costs and time/effort. Which in essence makes the property worthless.
This was a calculated move by the Gub'ment to defraud the rancher and get him off the land. It was not a move to help the rancher in his business. The tortoises have coexisted with those cows since the late 1800s on that same property. The gub'ment will use such BS as the "endangered species laws" to bolster their claims in the name of saving the planet. But if that is their claim why are they selling fracking and drilling rights to the properties in question?
It's one big pile of BS and the gub'ment is using every trick in the book to hide their deception.
Don't fall for it!