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Bundy also claims that it his �right� to graze these BLM public lands. This is not the case. The Taylor Grazing Act of 1934 specifically states that the issuance of a grazing permit does not confer any right to graze or right to own the land. The Taylor Grazing Act is the granddaddy of the U.S. laws governing grazing on federal land. �Taylor� was a rancher and a congressman from Colorado, hardly someone to want government tyranny over ranching.
So far as consistent with the purposes and provisions of this subchapter, grazing privileges recognized and acknowledged shall be adequately safeguarded, but the creation of a grazing district or the issuance of a permit pursuant to the provisions of this subchapter shall not create any right, title, interest, or estate in or to the lands.
In Public Lands Council v. Babbitt the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the new grazing regulations promulgated by the Department of Interior under former Secretary of Interior Bruce Babbitt to conform to Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA) and found:
The words �so far as consistent with the purposes . . . of this subchapter� and the warning that �issuance of a permit� creates no �right, title, interest or estate� make clear that the ranchers� interest in permit stability cannot be absolute; and that the Secretary is free reasonably to determine just how, and the extent to which, �grazing privileges� shall be safeguarded, in light of the Act�s basic purposes. Of course, those purposes include �stabiliz[ing] the livestock industry,� but they also include �stop[ping] injury to the public grazing lands by preventing overgrazing and soil deterioration,� and �provid[ing] for th[e] orderly use, improvement, and development� of the public range.
He has no �right� to graze it.
The federal courts have struck down every challenge Bundy has made about his claims, and has issued not one, but two, court orders to remove his trespass cattle. It�s not his land and he has no right to graze it.
