Hage, and some others such as Goss in NM have had mixed victories, but usually in District courts. Federal courts are not friendly.
It all boils down to this:
It used to be that the ranch owned the grazing rights. And that's what they were. Grazing rights. And BLM, USFS, and ranchers all got along because the old management was conservation minded, and the ranchers were too.
Then things changed. The Feds changed the rules. It became "Grazing Permits", not rights.
The old people in positions of management with BLM or USFS retired and were replaced by radical, environmental minded liberals.
All of a sudden, things aren't friendly anymore.
Then you throw in politics like "Save the tortoises", or some like minded endangered animal, combined with crooked politics of profit like with Reid in NV, and someone gets crewed out of lifetime of work. Sometimes generations of it.
Most of what we see today is a spinoff of very simple problems brought on by a change of rules. Always in favor of the feds.
When dealing with these issues, it is insane.
Rules created and enforced by feds, and judged by feds in federal courts. In other words, the whole game is structured so that nobody CAN win but the feds.
It's easy to see where things can run off the tracks when dealing with a kangaroo court.
