January 7, 2016

Welfare Ranching: The Subsidized Destruction of the American West

It's what the Hammonds and Bundys do.
They are on welfare plus they destroy our public lands.

http://www.publiclandsranching.org/book.htm


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January 6, 2016

Where is the enforcement?

The Bundy Militia Raid on Burns: What the Media Left Out



Public lands are some of our most treasured lands in the nation. Opal Creek, Crater Lake, the Siuslaw National Forest here in Oregon to name just a few. The truth behind the Bundy influenced takeover of the Malheur refuge HQ should be exposed for what it is.

MORE:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/04/the-bundy-militia-raid-on-burns-what-the-media-left-out/

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Who will protect our environment?
I am fully aware of the "good old boy" network that exists between public employees and these type of private yahoos. Many are related by family.
I saw it in the Forest Service in rural Oregon where I worked for the CETA program doing trail maintenance in the early 1980's. It's a wink and a nod as logging interests violated environmental laws meant to protect watersheds.

January 6, 2016

When the law didn't come down forcefully on the Hammonds the first time

Nor the Bundy Ranch.

And when I say "the first time" I am talking about the Clinton Administration era (see link).

The sad thing is it has put BLM and other Federal agents lives at risk.
Many of these employees are trying to protect wetlands and endangered species.
Our government appears to be abandoning our public servants.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027503449

January 6, 2016

When you learn just how horrible these ranchers are...

...It's harder to laugh at them.

Shame on our Federal Government for not nipping this in the bud.

Showdown in the Malheur Marshes: the Origins of Rancher Terrorism in Burns, Oregon

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/05/showdown-in-the-malheur-marshes-the-origins-of-the-armed-occupation-in-burns-oregon/