There is a lot going on that escapes the consumer. Ranch land in the West is not like anything the east has ever known.
Folks can speculate and pontificate but that doesn’t change the fact that there are laws that existed before the West was settled.
In analyzing the history of farmers/ranchers in the West, I can say, without a doubt, that Harry Reid and his equally evil son are trying to do a bait-and-switch with the Bundys. Reid wants the land for a solar array that the Chinese want to install, but Reid wants to rent it to them, so he can actually take advantage of the water in the aquifers underneath it all. Using the desert tortoise as an excuse...this is the same Harry Reid who has championed the Nevada Test Site... what about all the wildlife he killed there...?
Just as happened in the counties north of us, anyone who votes for that nasty, heartless POS should be pilloried.
Did the recent Sheriff of Nye County do some good?