[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".

[9YearLurker]

But should certain families have special claim to free use of massive amounts of federal lands just because their forebears had a special privilege?

And yeah, I think the EPA goes too far in protecting some obscure something or other, but I don’t really see how I support a family and some friends fighting back against that at gunpoint.

I may still be missing part of the story, but from what I understand I don’t really see their case in bringing it to this point.