Clark County property records show Cliven Bundy's parents moved from Bundyville, Arizona and bought the 160 acre ranch in 1948 from Raoul and Ruth Leavitt.
says here they owned 160 acres.
http://www.publicland.org/35_archives/documents/doc_1400_hist_record.pdf
PG 8
GRAZING SERVICE 1934
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1946
Grazing Service was established as the Division of Grazing in the Department of the Interior in
1934, to implement the Taylor Grazing Act's provisions for authorizing livestock grazing on the
public domain lands in 10 western states. It was renamed the Grazing Service in 1939, but
continued to operate as part of the Office of the Secretary of the I
nterior until July 11, 1944, when
it was established as an operating Bureau
in
the Department. In 1941, the Grazing Service
headquarters was moved from Washington, DC to Salt Lake City, Utah, a temporary arrangement
during World War II.
The Grazing Servi
ce operated until July 16
,
1946, when it and the General Land Office were
combined into the new Bureau of Land Management. It
’
s grazing functions were then performed
by a Branch of Range Management in the new Bureau of Land Management
Taylor Grazing Act of 1934 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Taylor Grazing Act of 1934[1] (P.L. 73-482) is a United States federal law that provides for the regulation of grazing on the public lands (excluding Alaska) to improve rangeland conditions and regulate their use.
The law initially permitted 80,000,000 ac (32,000,000 ha) of previously unreserved public lands of the United States to be placed into grazing districts to be administered by the Department of the Interior. As amended, the law now sets no limit on the amount of lands in grazing districts. Currently, there are approximately 162,000,000 ac (65,600,000 ha) inside grazing allotments.
I for one am torn on this issue. It is by Executive order that they are charged to use the land 1986. I for one think its wrong to decry by executive fiat any LAWS,FINES or TAX by executive order, thats congress or the houses job not the military leaders job.
ONE the ranchers already pay taxes to the federal government in land tax and then when they sell the beef. Often times they also maintain that land for use for the cattle.
TWO we the people pay taxes into the federal coffers. Why not help the American people with cheaper beef prices by helping the those ranchers.
Three The land belongs to the federal government by law. I just do not understand why they try to make it so difficult on any American citizen.
http://www.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/crsreports/crsdocuments/RL34267_12032007.pdf
Federal Land Ownership:
Constitutional Authority and the History of
Acquisition, Disposal and Retention
This explains it pretty clearly.
Pretty obvious the federal .gov is no longer for we the people.