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History points to more dangerous Malheur-style standoffs

  • Written by Char Miller, W. M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis, Pomona College

The acquittal of Ammon Bundy and other militia members who occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon last January leaves our public lands and the people who steward them in a vulnerable position. Indeed, it puts a target on their backs.

The Bundy family has said as much. “The government should be scared,” Ryan Bundy asserte...

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