Update on the Oregon Rancher Standoff

By Published on January 14, 2016

As we enter Day 13 of the standoff at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, here are the latest developments:

● Harney County has told an Ammon Bundy-affiliated group of locals that it can’t hold a planned community meeting at the county-owned fairgrounds. The location for the meeting has become a wedge between the Harney County Committee of Safety and the county government, once loosely allied in their desire for Bundy to leave town. The self-appointed committee planned to host Bundy and Montana militia leader Ryan Payne on Friday to outline the militants’ exit plan. They’ve said the 7 p.m. meeting will go on, with or without a meeting space furnished by the county or another community group.

● What’s unfolding in Harney County isn’t Oregon’s first go-round with camouflaged, heavily armed militants challenging the federal government. Another event just nine months ago drew far less attention. But those who watched it closely say it emboldened and further galvanized the militant movement a year after the 2014 Cliven Bundy ranch standoff in Nevada.

● Our readers continue to have questions about how the standoff is unfolding. Here are 5 FAQs answered.

● The rancher whose cattle graze private rangeland adjoining the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, said he didn’t give Ammon Bundy and his band of armed militants permission to enter the ranch Monday afternoon and destroy a publicly owned fence and is upset about what happened. His ranch hands have already repaired the fence. “They’re not coming onto my place no more,” he said of the militants.

Read the article “Update on the Oregon Rancher Standoff” on oregonlive.com.

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