My take-away is that the BLM should charge a nominal fee and prevent overgrazing. > To say nothing of betraying their charter Their charter is absolutely to e

My take-away is that the BLM should charge a nominal fee and prevent overgrazing. > To say nothing of betraying their charter Their charter is absolutely to enable the extraction of resources from federal lands. It's a wild reinterpretation of history to claim otherwise. > But I do expect them to charge fair prices in the open market There is no "open market" for land; the BLM owns, for example 65% of Nevada, and huge amounts of Utah, Montana etc. If the US government was a telecom company, everyone here would be up in arms about monopoly price gouging if they tried to charge "market" rates, because consumers have no alternative!