That’s one of the reasons Bundy (per his daughter) stopped paying them.
If seen as an easement (although I believe it was actually a license) the dominant owners (fedzilla) were obligated to put some of that `grazing fee’ money back into maintaining the property, roads, firebreaks, chopping scrub, etc.
So the `easement’ was surcharged by the `owners’. (Actually, *we* are the owners; the feds are an artificial construct created by 13 states. And some of them had grave doubts at the time. Go figger.) Usually you see the servient user doing that: all Bundy was doing was what his father and his before him did—raising beeves.
But the BLM didn’t do jack, they just took the money.
Of course that’s what the feds do: they sit back and expect our checks to clear. If their primary job is securing the people from invasion, they sure as hell aren’t using it down on the border!
hey, pull my sting again, I’m winding dow....
Last week the BLM/FEDS were claiming the US Govt owned the public lands being grazed on, but in their BLM website Statement of ending operation it says the American People own the land....interesting.
Is it a concession of truth, or a ploy wherein they vilify Bundy because he is not paying the grazing fee like 16000 other ranchers.
Of course, Reid/China Solar not mentioned. The water rights are not mentioned either. The tortoise is now forgotten, and it seems that the letter is telling the America people that Bundy just won’t pay his grazing fees to the taxpayers.
Dana Loesch said if those cows were illegals the feebs would be there handing out EBT cards.