I don't know the whole story nor do I care to learn it. I am not for the BLM taking this guys cattle (which was latter returned). However, I am also not for cattle ranchers to run cattle on federal lands especially in desert areas such as Nevada. The government hands out these leasing rates at way bellow market value (grazing on private land costs 3-4 times as much as what they sign to use public land). Running a few cattle on public land doesn't do much damage but when you have a heard in the thousands then they can do some damage (usually happens near a river aka soil erosion caused by fat ass cattle). I believe in keeping the public lands open to the public not for drilling or cattle. Although I do prefer free ranging cattle than those forced to stand knee high in their own shit at a factory farm.
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