Originally Posted by trevesty

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".

Originally Posted by Vendzilla

Looks like the Sheriff and BLM came to an agreement and BLM is stopping what they were doing and they are going to share the sale money from Bundy's cattle with him.

http://www.8newsnow.com/story/252303...-bundy-and-blm