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Whether his cattle were on public land is a separate issue but it provides the pretense to illegally take property and business.

The issue is that there is a man being thrown off his property at gun point and being dispossessed of his business so that another business may benefit.

Excerpt from "Cattle Trespass Impacts"[1]

Cliven Bundy has no legal authority to graze cattle on federal lands in the Gold Butte area, including Lake Mead National Recreation Area. The U.S. District Court of Nevada has permanently enjoined Cliven Bundy's trespass grazing, ordered him to remove his trespass cattle from public lands inside and outside the former Bunkerville Allotment (including from the Lake Mead NRA) before December 2013, and stated the U.S. is entitled to seize and impound any cattle that have not been removed by the judicially imposed off-date and that remain in trespass. A large number of the trespass cattle on the federal lands are feral cattle that can pose a threat to members of the public recreating or traveling over the federal lands. The trespass cattle have also caused damage to private property, as well as to the federal lands and natural resources.
Examples of Restoration Funding and Viability Impacted
Non-Governmental Organizations have expressed concern that the regional mitigation strategy for the Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone utilizes Gold Butte as the location for offsite mitigation for impacts from solar development, and that those restoration activities are not durable with the presence of trespass cattle.

What Non-Governmental Organization has expressed concern about trespass cattle on Gold Butte interfering with mitigation efforts required by solar development at the Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone (SEZ)?

There is one pending solar application within the Dry Lake SEZ (Application 84052, for a 919 acre parabolic trough facility).[2]

The applicant is NV Power Co. and the application, NVN-084052, is on hold [3]

[1] http://www.blm.gov/nv/st/en/fo/lvfo/blm_programs/more/trespass_cattle/cattle_trespass_impacts.html
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[2] http://blmsolar.anl.gov/sez/nv/dry-lake/

[3] http://www.blm.gov/nv/st/en/fo/lvfo/blm_programs/energy/southern_nevada_reco.html