While the Bundy's won this battle, with the help of Patriots and, finally, some investigative journalism, the war is far from over...
And, they are among the richest in natural resources.... Silver, Gold, Uranium, Oil, Sun (Solar), Hydroelectric, Timber, Farmland, Ranch land, to name a few.
meaning they are making way too many moves regarding your and my land, Public Lands, without your or my input. They are to manage the land as stewards to the public, with public input. Recently the BLM made a wilderness on the Siskiyou/Cascade intersecting crest......there was grazing there too for 150 years but the cattle community here is small. Its not a nice high elevation type wilderness eiher, fire burns hard there and now we have to ask permission to even fire up a chain saw there, cant drive,cant use retardant of our choice... had to fight to even establish helispot LZ's to safely land our helicopters so we don't have to hike 10 miles just to fight a fire with what we can carry on our backs.In what way has public land lost all meaning? I'm guessing that instead of it being land for use by the citizenry it is used as a weapon to control the populace and make the elite more wealthy.
Its always what you cant do, never what you can do.