Neat you know nothing of this story.
Enlighten us.
Bundy owes the government for 20 years of illegal trespass of his cattle on government land. He has been grazing 1000 head on land rated for a 150 head carrying capacity. Technically, he owes the government over a million dollars. They are asking for 300K, and running his cattle off of the BLM land. So he calls in the rightwingnut cases in militias, and threatons to make a 'stand'.
Cheapest settlement? Just shoot all the cows on the land illegally, and arrest anyone interfering.
The reason the Fed don't want the cattle to graze on this acreage that they had been grazing on for at least a hundred years is because they want to protect an endangered species of the tortoise family. I didn't know cattle ate turtles, or were any threat to them.