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Originally Posted by dyna mo
the dilemma just keeps getting more intriguing to me! for 1 thing, it seems blm claims publically thta they are confiscating cattle and kiccking out bundy due to fees he owes but in court they filed documents claiming the reason they are evicting is due to the desert tortoise.
Another thing, apparently that's not federal land, it's state own land, so technically not blm's jurisdiction, from what I've read. But even more importantly, apparently Bundy's family has been ranching that land since before Nevada was even a state and their right to ranch that land is grand-fathered in.
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My understanding is that the land in question(as well as other remote areas of Nevada) were in dispute amongst claimants(ranchers, miners, etc) at the time right before statehood, thus the federal government took over the titles to these properties to expedite the process of making Nevada a state. The idea was to sell the land back to the state and/or an auction of sorts amongst those claimants. This last part never happened, so the BLM has been in control since that agency was created.
That also doesn't sound as good in a blog article meant to stir up fervor of "lol government bad".