Put aside the emotion and controversy from the latest Range War in Nevada. It is symptomatic of a much larger problem. Federal Land Grabs. I referenced a story from Range Magazine on this subject some time back and thought it might be timely to relink to the story.

Have you ever wondered how the Federal Government can buy up land using your tax dollars and declare that you cannot set foot on it ? Seems like it should be contrary to what Government is allowed to do. After all, don’t we grant the Federal Government the rights to do certain things? So how then did we get to a point that the Federal Government owns so much of America?

https://nomomrniceguy.wordpress.com/2013/05/26/federal-landgrab-how-did-they-do-that/