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Well after digging through a bunch of shitty articles...
It seems ranchers are allowed to use the BLM land for cattle grazing, but they have to pay a fee. This guy seems to be the only guy whom refuses to pay the fee as all the other ranchers in the area do pay it. Added to this this Cliven Bundy guy used to pay the fee but he stopped paying in 1993 claiming he had the right to use the land for free because of his Mormon ancestors.
He claims he owes 300k in fees the fed govt says it's closer to 1.1 mil in fees from 1993 to now and it's just short of 1k cows.
So it's a case of some guy thinks he can use public land for free to make money with out paying a dime because his ancestors did, but they don't own the land nor does he. On the flip side regardless if it's $300k or 1 mil that's a lot of money to pay in fees, but I guess we are taking over 20 years meaning 300k probably isn't bad if he had on average a thousand cows each of those 20 years. 1 mil is likely pretty excessive..
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