From the daily archives: Monday, January 4, 2016

Reality Check on Public Lands Ranching: A reaction to the rhetoric of the Bundy militia in Oregon

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Boise, ID – Western Watersheds Project is disappointed that the government’s acquiescence to ongoing law-breaking on public lands across the West has led to the armed occupation of one of America’s premier bird sanctuaries. This weekend’s militia takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge is another battle in the “War on the West” that extractive industries […]

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Hammonds had law enforcement issues long before the arson charges

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They were almost charged with a felony in 1994-

Today Dwight and Steve Hammond are said to be reporting back to prison to finish their resentenced terms.

There is a debate in the media whether their two convicted arsons were all that serious. It turns out that is not the entire history of the Hammonds […]

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‎"At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour."

~ Edward Abbey