Mean while, back at the ranch...


Please note the the BLM is part of the Departement of the Interior which also manages all of our National Parks, National Forests. etc.

BLM got mostly leftover land that nobody wanted. No harvestable timber. No great scenic featues like the Grand Canyon. Just junk land that nobody wanted.

Their job has always been to manage the land for the benefit of the People. Their job was never to provide huge amounts of money for the rest of the government to spend nor was it their place to punish uppity ranchers and put then out of business.

People Back East do not realize the BLM helps get natural gas, oil, gold, copper, silver, water, etc. ad mauseum to run the country. The government supplies water at a price that is trivial compared to the cost of the giant dams that store it.

The result is that all the raw materials for Prosperity have been there for us to use. It has resulted in the most successful country Earth has even known.

Grazing rights are intened to help ranchers raise cattle that will feed people and provide other goods such as shoes, belts and wallets.

All good things.