The government holds legal title to the land, read post 32.
There is nothing wrong with people paying rent to use something they don’t own. In fact that is the *right* thing to do.
So they cite Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which was really capitulation and annexation through war. So who does he pay “the rent” to actually? It goes into a general till for Obama so he as the Executive can spread the socialist wealth around. You seemed to be arguing pretty hard here...
The *right* thing to do is to reverse fed regulation. You’ll notice that this rancher’s problems always start up when there is a Clintooon or the pResident Obama in office, and abate when an R is in office.