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Interior Department Rescinds Grazing Rights For Hammond Family, Reversing Trump Admin’s Decision

By NWPB News February 26, 2021

Protesters object to the sentencing of Oregon ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond during a rally in Burns, Oregon, on June 2, 2016. CREDIT: AMELIA TEMPLETON

It reverses the decision by former President Donald Trump’s Interior secretary, David Bernhardt. He had granted the permit to Dwight and Steven Hammond on Trump’s final day in office. The permit gave the Hammonds the right to graze livestock on public land for 10 years.Read More

Hammond Family, Previously Pardoned By Trump, Get Back Grazing Rights On Last Day Of Presidency

By NWPB News January 21, 2021

Cattle graze in Harney County, Ore., on July 19, 2018. CREDIT: Conrad Wilson/OPB

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management on Tuesday issued a grazing permit and privilege to two eastern Oregon ranchers whose imprisonment sparked the armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in 2016.Read More

Ranchers Whose Federal Arson Case Sparked Malheur Refuge Takeover May Get Grazing Rights

By NWPB News January 4, 2021

President Trump pardoned Dwight and Steven Hammond Tuesday, June 10 2018 CREDIT: OPB

The federal government has proposed awarding grazing allotments to an Oregon ranching family whose members were convicted of arson in a court battle that triggered the takeover of a federal wildlife refuge by right-wing extremists. The Dec. 31 action by the Bureau of Land Management in favor of Hammond Ranches angered environmental groups.Read More

Federal Appeals Court Upholds Dismissal Of Cliven Bundy Case From 2014 Standoff With BLM

By NPR News August 7, 2020

A federal appeals court has confirmed the dismissal of a criminal case against Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy (left), seen in 2018 with his son Ryan Bundy and attorney Larry Klayman. CREDIT: Ken Ritter/AP

A federal appeals court in San Francisco has denied the Justice Department's motion for a retrial in the case against Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, who led an armed standoff against federal agents over cattle grazing near his ranch in 2014.Read More

Judge Denies Grazing Rights To Oregon Ranchers Whose Case Helped Spark Malheur Occupation

By Dirk VanderHart December 21, 2019

The Oregon ranchers whose imprisonment helped spur an armed occupation in 2016 don’t have permission to graze on federal land after all. On Friday, a U.S. District Court rejected the Trump administration’s decision to restore grazing rights to Dwight and Steven Hammond, the father and son pair at the center of years of controversy in eastern Oregon.Read More

Judge To Rule On Grazing Allowance For Family Whose Case Sparked Malheur Occupation

By Conrad Wilson June 30, 2019

After hours of testimony, a federal judge in Portland extended a temporary restraining order as he considers whether or not to prevent a controversial Harney County ranching family from grazing their cattle on certain parcels of public land in southeast Oregon.Read More

Federal Judge Blocks Grazing Permits To Oregon Family At Heart Of Malheur Occupation

By Rob Manning June 5, 2019

Dwight Hammond Jr. greets protesters outside his home in Burns, Oregon in January 2016. Hammond was convicted of arson on federal charges in 2012. The case sparked the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge Occupation led by Ammon and Ryan Bundy. CREDIT: AMELIA TEMPLETON/OPB

U.S. Judge Michael H. Simon issued a temporary restraining order, blocking the grazing permits issued to Dwight and Steven Hammond by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke before he left the Trump administration at the beginning of this year. Read More

Environmental Groups Sue Over Restored Grazing Rights For Oregon Ranchers Pardoned By Trump

By Emily Cureton May 14, 2019

Environmental groups sued this week over a federal decision allowing two Eastern Oregon ranchers to graze cattle on the same land they were convicted of burning in 2012. Prison sentences for ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond sparked protests, leading to the 2016 standoff at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.Read More

Oregon Ranchers Whose Case Sparked Malheur Occupation Can Graze On Public Lands Again

By Conrad Wilson January 29, 2019

s one of his last acts in office, ousted Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke signed off on returning grazing rights to the eastern Oregon ranchers whose prison sentences led to a 2016 standoff at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.Read More

‘Bundyville’ Tells A Story Of Anti-Government Extremism Set In The Rural West, Says Podcast Host

By Scott Leadingham December 11, 2018

'Bundyville' is a seven-part podcast from Longreads and Oregon Public Boradcasting, hosted by Leah Sottile. CREDIT: Illustration by Zoë van Dijk for Longreads

Journalist Leah Sottile covered the 2016 Malheur Wildlife Refuge occupation and its aftermath with the Bundy family. This year she released a deeply reported podcast about the Bundys – called 'Bundyville,' a collaboration between Longreads and Oregon Public Broadcasting. Read More

President Trump Pardons Eastern Oregon Ranchers Whose Case Sparked Malheur Refuge Occupation

By Ericka Cruz Guevarra July 10, 2018

President Donald Trump has pardoned two key figures whose arrests led to the 2016 armed occupation at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.Read More