[taxcontrol]

Hold up a min. Grazing rights were created in 1934 and the Department of Interior established the grazing service at that time. The Grazing Service was merged with the General Land Office in 1946 to form the Bureau of Land Management. So when the BLM was created is irrelevant. When the Taylor grazing act was passed (1934) is what is relevant.

Section 3 of the Taylor Grazing Act concerns grazing permits issued on public lands within the grazing districts established under the Act. It gave leasing preference to landowners and homesteaders in or adjacent to the grazing district lands. The permittees are required to pay a fee, and the permit cannot exceed ten years but is renewable. Further, under extraordinary conditions, the permits can be revoked (such as severe drought)

[Biggirl]

I have heard on a talkradio show that the fed government bought that land because of an endangered tortose animal? Just wondering.

[GladesGuru]

IIRC, water rights were part of the recognition of the right to graze cattle on the free range area where the water right was located.

GB, at Paragon Foundation may be of some help on this issue, as might be his son.