[9YearLurker]

Please forgive my ignorance on this, but if the deal for grazing on public lands is to pay a fee for it and you don’t pay that fee for 20 years, isn’t reasonable that the government might remove your cattle from that land?

[Sopater]

Please forgive my ignorance on this, but if the deal for grazing on public lands is to pay a fee for it and you don’t pay that fee for 20 years, isn’t reasonable that the government might remove your cattle from that land?

There's an interesting back-story to this, though. The Bundy family has been grazing their cattle in that land since the late 1800's. One day, the BLM decides that in order to protect some desert tortoise, they have to take that land and charge a fee to let cattle graze it. The "law" may be on the side of the BLM, but that doesn't make it "right".