More Bundy Blowback Bullshit: Owyhee Canyonlands NM Proposal Now In Jeopardy, Because Freedumb

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A bid to preserve 2.5 million acres of rolling sagebrush hills and sheer desert canyons in southeast Oregon could be collateral damage from the 40-day occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. The occupation that ended last week touched raw nerves over the federal government's vast landholdings in Oregon and the restrictions it imposes on grazing, mining and logging.

It could give President Obama pause when he considers whether to unilaterally designate an Owyhee Canyonlands National Monument that would cover an area roughly the size of Yellowstone National Park.

While Harney County residents largely opposed Ammon Bundy's decision to seize the bird sanctuary south of Burns, they sympathized with his critique of federal environmental restrictions -- and some vented about the monument proposal, which is located in neighboring Malheur County along the Idaho border.

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At a community meeting in early January at the Harney County Fairgrounds, multiple residents spoke in opposition to the Owyhee monument, and the county commission last September passed a resolution against it. Other critics include the Association of Oregon Counties, the Malheur County Cattlemen's Association and state elected officials. "Now the people of Harney County can begin to put their lives back together and heal some of the divisions," Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) told Greenwire last week. "There are things, hopefully, that can be done that will help in that healing process -- like making sure the president doesn't create another 2 ½-million-acre national monument in the neighboring county."

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http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060032436

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1. I guess they were hoping for a kinder, gentler anti government movement.

Like the American Lands Council or something.