No, Bundy did NOT have more (as in own) land.
He USED more land. The more land was federal land. This is a common condition with ranching in the west. Some land you own, and some land you lease (range fees) but what you call your ranch is the sum of the two.
The fact is that the federal land he was using before the creation of the BLM to
Well shoot... I guess you’ve got me. It’s just peachy that the Feds are using the BLM to prevent use of more and more land. Pretty soon, we’ll be eating vat grown tofu and living in high-rise cubicles.
You’ve won me over. Congrats...
The Feds hate individualists and the productive. They want him to move into town (Hairy Reid's Las Vegas) and become a GOOD tax slave/subject.
The guy's problem is that he lives too close to Las Vegas and within Clark County.