Interesting article about Jon Marvel from 1999.
http://www.hcn.org/servlets/hcn.Article?article_id=5134
I love that he wears a button "end welfare ranching."
He makes the point that it costs more to feed a hamster every month than ranchers pay the govt. to rape the land with their cattle. Ridiculous. Idaho passed a law specifically to prevent him from bidding on leases, but it was overturned by the state supreme court.