There are very few people in this world who feel as entitled as rural westerners do. Their default position is that the land is theirs to do whatever they want on and the rest of us can fuck right off. Nevermind that their precious “way of life” is barely a century old and rides upon the back of Native American genocide and massive public subsidies and corruption together with the destruction of entire ecosystems and vast swathes of public land. While a lot of them are perfectly nice people otherwise, ranchers are among the worst offenders in this sense.