Without looking it up, I'm pretty sure that Nevada, like most open range states, has a procedure for removing livestock your neighbor refuses to come get. You're going to have to have it fenced, then you're going to have to give them notice, then you get a court order allowing you to remove and impound the livestock, and then finally you can sell it while deducting your costs for feed, transport, and damages said livestock may have caused.
The BLM had won its case in the federal courts it was by all accounts, legally speaking, the lawful owner of the property. It should have fenced in Bundy's 160 acres, noticed him of his trespassing cattle, given him opportunity to get them, then gotten a judgment FROM A STATE COURT allowing them to impound and finally, to sell the cattle. All of that, relatively speaking, could have been done quickly and had they done so, they would be completely in the right legally. And they could have taken the sheriff out there with them.
And you know, in just about every state in the country, the case law on trespassing livestock is just about the oldest case law on the books. It would have been simple.
