“If they cut it off, that would be such a crying shame, all the pipes would freeze.”Īs the occupation entered its third day, Ammon Bundy said the group felt it had the support of the local community.
“I’ve got cows that are scattered and lost.”Īs of Tuesday morning, authorities had not shut off power to the refuge, Finicum said. A leader of the small armed group that has been occupying a remote national wildlife refuge in Oregon said Tuesday that they will go home when a plan to turn over management of federal lands to locals is implemented.Īmmon Bundy - one of the sons of rancher Cliven Bundy, who was involved in a 2014 Nevada standoff with the government over grazing rights - told reporters at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge that ranchers, loggers and farmers should have control of federal lands.īundy offered few specifics of the group’s plan, but LaVoy Finicum, a rancher from Arizona, said the group would examine the underlying land ownership transactions to begin to “unwind it.”įinicum said he was eager to leave Oregon.
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