Not only do the locals NOT have a right to his land. Western states have laws that say you have to maintain fencing to keep grazing animals OUT of your land. So, if you do not fence in your land, your neighbor is allowed to let their animals graze it. Not only that, he apparently has a bison herd that he wishes to keep from leaving the land. I get that these people are pissed off because they have been able to access the land before but it is NOT public or BLM land. It is private property. If you are caught on a ranch out west, a lot of the time you are yelled at. If you come back you are shot at. Archive: https://archive.today/YQjVE From the post: >>A Texas oil baron's billionaire son is clashing with the descendants of original settlers after he built 20 miles of barbed wire fence to keep them off his $105 million ranch. William Harrison, 37, bought the 88,000-acre expanse of land, named the Cielo Vista Ranch, stretching through the San Luis Valley in Colorado in 2017. Hundreds of locals, who are descended from original Mexican and Spanish settlers, claim to have the right to legal access to the property under a 1844 agreement which allows them to graze their livestock, hunt and harvest timber.