The Bundy Ranch Saga Should Prompt Discussion on the Sale of Federal Land

By: American Decency Staff

Cliven Bundy and his family have owned a ranch in Nevada for 140 years.  The land he grazes his cattle on has changed from being owned by the federal government, to being restrictively managed by the federal government, to being micromanaged by the federal government, and if environmentalists get their way, he will have no means of survival.

Upon statehood in 1864, Nevada was admitted to the union on equal footing with the original states, however, somewhere between 84% and 86% of the State’s land mass was forever “disclaimed” by the people of the state.  It belongs to the federal government.

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