Partially true. These federal agencies start with a law, then they make up things as they go along using regulations, rules, guidelines, policy they wrote and often what they are enforcing does not even resemble the law they started with.
I have followed enough of the ranching/BLM Forest Service issues to wonder why those representing ranchers don’t argue the point of the agencies getting so far from the actual laws passed by Congress. Probably because the ranchers they lean on don’t have the money to hire a decent attorney and often even defend themselves.
Quite true. If the ranchers had half the money that the environmentalists do, it’d be a different story...