I've been keeping up with it from what Fox News has been reporting. It looks like there's a bigger backstory, and so far I'm not really impressed with the rancher's reasoning.
On the other hand, the fed.gov is going WAY overboard on this, and I agree that the freakin' tac teams surrounding the place will lead to a bad end unless someone in (greater) authority steps in. Also, I saw in one story that the gov had spent nearly $1 million to round up, so far, around 100 cattle. They coulda got some rancher's kid on an ATV to do that for 50 bucks a cow.
There seems to be a controversy about his paying grazing fees. Apparently there's local fees & then there's federal fees. There's disagreement about what he has or has not paid.
Also, there is a backstory about an endangered tortoise that precipitated all this .... except even the government is apparently killing them off as there seems to be an over-abundance of them, now. Go figure.
And yet another aspect; this guy is the last rancher in the area, the govt. has "run off" the others, part of (alledgedly) the Agenda 21 program. One doesn't need Alex Jones & Infowars for that, THAT is a very real program that threatens our property rights across America.
I wish good fortune and a true aim for all the responding militias; may you keep your powder dry.
This may get interesting. Hopefully sane heads will prevail.
I had higher hopes of that happening under Clinton's regime than Obama's, however.