Land locked property

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Land swaps, do happen, but they are a very, very long process, due it large part to the standard of review that is in place. Because of this, many office will not hardly consider a trade unless the lands they are acquiring are unique or quite large.

 

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So, I am just taking this all in but i do have one question or two.

1) If a piece of landlocked BLM or public is bid on and won for purposes of grazing and the successful bidder does not own and of the private land surrounding the landlocked property then how do they gain legal access?

2) Or, are the grazing rights only available to those who hold deed to the private ground around it?

By the way, here in Kansas we burn our prairie every year.

SW- Very few BLM grazing permits are issued through a bidding process. If you're interested in more information on them, I can bore you to death... However, if a person owns a grazing permit for a tract of BLM land, they are not allowed to access it through private land without permission from the landowner or through other legal means of access. Many/most grazing permits (they are not rights) are held by those who own the private land near or adjoing the BLM. That was part of the early adjudication process in first granting grazing permits. For the BLM, having private land (or in some cases private water) for a base is a prerequisite for having a grazing permit. The only special access rules for grazing permittees that I am aware of on federal land involves allowing them to access range improvement projects for the purpose of maintenance on closed roads.