There needs to be a lawsuit to expose the inequity in federal land “ownership” amongst the states. A court needs to hear why the feds can own as much as 85% of one state but less than a half a percent of another.
That’s just it. There have been lawsuits upon lawsuits upon lawsuits. Eventually, ranchers go broke going to court and they give up. That was why Bundy originally quit paying the BLM. He said, “Why should I pay these guys to run me out of business and off my land?” And as GilesB mentioned here (thank you, Giles, by the way), once you peel back the layers of the onion, the Feds DO NOT OWN this land. They were originally paid to “manage” the land, which they stopped doing once their intention was to take it.