Ranchers see public lands as their own.

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18. Want more info?...get this... private grazing is 1600% more expensive than BLM lands..

Bundy and the other deadbeats are getting a huge bargain...and STILL stiffing the taxpayers by not even paying the pennies they owe.

The 2018 grazing fee was $1.41 per Animal Unit Month, yet the 2019 fee fell to the baseline $1.35 per AUM. Comparatively, in 2019, the grazing fee on private land in the western U.S. was $22.60 per AUM. That’s nearly 1600% more than the BLM’s price. The BLM cites that, in 2015, the livestock grazing program cost $36.2 million to administer, but it brought in just $14.5 million in grazing fees

https://smea.uw.edu/currents/money-doesnt-grow-on-public-lands-the-cost-of-livestock-grazing-in-the-american-west/