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With the “outrageous lawbreaker” Cliven Bundy and four of his sons in custody, U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada took to the Senate floor Thursday to renew his push to preserve the scenic Gold Butte area northeast of Las Vegas. “Because of trouble caused by the Bundys and their pals, the federal employees tasked with safely guarding these antiquities, were prevented from doing their jobs,” he said. Reid also called attention in his speech to the armed takeover of a government wildlife refuge in Oregon earlier this year “by a dangerous group of militants” that included Bundy family members. Reid...

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke recommended Tuesday that President Trump shrink two more national monuments and change how six others are managed, expanding the administration’s effort to roll back what it sees as excessive use of presidential authority to protect public lands. Zinke, a day after Trump signed proclamations reducing the size of two Utah national monuments, urged the president to cut Nevada’s Gold Butte and Oregon’s Cascade-Siskiyou.

Carol Bundy, wife of rancher & political prisoner Cliven Bundy, was happy to get a visit from the Department of The Interior this week. Carol says she’s still not quite trusting the turn around in the Department, but she is encouraged. The visit to Bundy Ranch was by order of Nevada Senator Dean Heller, who sent agents from The Department out to do an investigation into whether or not there was any real justification to designate land where the Bundy Family owns rights to the water as part of the Gold Butte Monument. Mrs. Bundy said they spent 5 or...

President Obama on Tuesday created new national monuments in a sacred tribal site in southeastern Utah and in a swath of Nevada desert, after years of political fights over the fate of the sites. The designations further cement Obama’s environmental legacy as one of the most consequential — and contentious — in presidential history. He now has invoked his executive power to create national monuments 29 times during his tenure, establishing or expanding protections for more than 550 million acres of federal lands and waters. Environmental groups have praised the conservation efforts, but critics say they amount to a federal...

Recent threads brought to light potential business interests Reid may have in and around Bunkerville. http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3146700/postshttp://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3145746/posts?page=160#160 Here is some additional information which may explain WHY these business interests exist. Excerpting a blog entry dated June 2nd, 2013, from Friends of Gold Butte: The Gold Butte National Conservation Area with Wilderness Act has been introduced by Senator Reid. Conservationists have worked for permanent protection of Gold Butte for over ten years. Please take action today and show your support the Gold Butte National Conservation Area with Wilderness! http://www.friendsofgoldbutte.org/2013/06/gold-butte-nca-proposal-introduced/ Excerpting a blog entry dated June 6th, 2013, from Friends of Gold Butte:...

Environmental mitigation necessary for a planned solar power project may have motivated the federal Bureau of Land Management’s decision to launch a military-style armed enforcement action against a Nevada cattle rancher, government documents reveal. According to the documents, BLM determined continued cattle grazing would interfere with the Bureau’s plans to use the land as an environmental mitigation area for desert tortoise disruption caused by the solar facility. In 1993, the BLM designated hundreds of thousands of acres of federal lands in Nevada for conservation to protect desert tortoises. The BLM told rancher Cliven Bundy—whose family had raised cattle on the...