It wasn’t his land. The dispute was over the government changing the rules about grazing cattle on public land. He refused to pay the federal government and it escalated from there.
No. It never was his land and he himself has never made that claim.
1954
■ Cliven’s father, David Ammon Bundy, begins grazing cattle with his 8-year-old son on the Bunkerville allotment near the farm he purchased in 1949. Cliven’s mother, Bodel Jensen Bundy, had homesteaded land near Mesquite. David and Bodel Bundy had moved their family from Mount Trumbull, Ariz., where David was born in 1922.
1973
■ Cliven Bundy pays grazing fees to the BLM for the next 20 years.
1993
■ The BLM modifies Bundy’s grazing permit by reducing the size allowed for his herd to 150 and restricts where his cattle can graze in the Gold Butte area. He refuses the permit and stops paying grazing fees. The BLM cancels his permit.
It was always “public” land. The dispute was about federal authority over land in the state of Nevada.
They threatened to seize his cattle for illegal grazing without a permit and showed up in force to try and do that. It escalated into a standoff from there.
It wasn’t his land. The dispute was over the government changing the rules about grazing cattle on public land. He refused to pay the federal government and it escalated from there.
It actually was his land before the government appropriated it and forced him to rent it back .
No. It never was his land and he himself has never made that claim.
1954
■ Cliven’s father, David Ammon Bundy, begins grazing cattle with his 8-year-old son on the Bunkerville allotment near the farm he purchased in 1949. Cliven’s mother, Bodel Jensen Bundy, had homesteaded land near Mesquite. David and Bodel Bundy had moved their family from Mount Trumbull, Ariz., where David was born in 1922.
1973
■ Cliven Bundy pays grazing fees to the BLM for the next 20 years.
1993
■ The BLM modifies Bundy’s grazing permit by reducing the size allowed for his herd to 150 and restricts where his cattle can graze in the Gold Butte area. He refuses the permit and stops paying grazing fees. The BLM cancels his permit.
It was always “public” land. The dispute was about federal authority over land in the state of Nevada.
But how did it get escalated to the stand off? Why couldn't this proceed thru the courts where Bundy eventually won?
They threatened to seize his cattle for illegal grazing without a permit and showed up in force to try and do that. It escalated into a standoff from there.