“Around 1990 or so they told him that he could no longer graze more than 150 of his 600 or so head of cattle there.
He told them to pound sand and kept paying his fees and grazing his cattle.
Around 1994 they told him he could only graze them in the summer, fall and winter and said it was so that the cattle didn’t disturb the Desert Tortoise. (more on that later)
He told them that they were HIRED by the Taylor Grazing act to MANAGE the land for the ranchers. So he FIRED them and started paying his fees to to the state of Nevada. Soon they didn’t know where to put it so they quit taking payments.
Meanwhile they came at him from another angle. When they saw they weren’t going to be able to force him off the land the BLM SOLD the rights to the land to the state of Nevada under the condition that the state RETIRE the grazing rights permanently. Nevada legislators, being idiots, did their bidding. That was around 1996 or so.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3144333/posts?page=17#17
Who in and why did the BLM arbitrarily change what is an appropriate head of cattle to graze on land?
“started paying his fees to to the state of Nevada. Soon they didn’t know where to put it so they quit taking payments.”
They never heard of an escrow account?
BTW, Harry is an infected, suppurating pustule!