You know, you're right. I've been looking at this from the wrong end of things. I'm willing to admit when I'm in the wrong. When you take what our forefathers intended, and what they fought against, then yes, I support the rancher.
I've been looking at this from the perspective that the fedgov has controlled the use of the land for more than 130 years, and at some point established a fee system to improve rangeland that was, at times, overgrazed and mismanaged. The point is, the land should never have belonged to the feds, it should have belonged to the states. And what the states did with it is what should have mattered.
I'm from the west, and most of the land in the west is owned by the government.
I don't mind some set-asides for all to use, but we don't need percentages of half the state or more to be under federal control.
I think fedgov claims about 90% of Nevada.