Why Malheur Wildlife Refuge is seeing green after the siege
By Story Hinckley
APRIL 27, 2016
... Since the siege on the refuge ended in early February, the park has seen a surge of financial support ...
Malheur held its annual Harney County Migratory Bird Festival earlier this month and it was an unprecedented success. According to the festival’s website, “Tours filled up faster than we could keep up” and many of the events sold out before the three-day festival ...
“The Klonoskis’ fundraiser poses a direct challenge to occupational organizers: the longer they stay the more money is raised for the Paiute Tribe; Friends of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge; Americans for Responsible Solutions, a gun control organization founded by former Arizona Rep. Gabby Giffords; and the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors extremist groups in the US,” the Monitor’s Molly Jackson wrote in January ...
“Bundy’s stated goal was to turn the refuge over to local ranchers, loggers and miners,” writes Triple Pundit’s Tina Casey. “But instead he set off a surge of public support for national parks in general and the Malheur refuge in particular.”
http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2016/0427/Why-Malheur-Wildlife-Refuge-is-seeing-green-after-the-siege
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