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Topic: Malheur National Wildlife Refuge

Ammon Bundy, the Ottawa Trucker Convoy and the January 6th, 2021 US Capitol Riot (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Bundys led to whiny truckers and Jan 6

Amanda Marcotte
Ammon Bundy, one of the sons of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, arrives for a news conference at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Ore., on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016. With the takeover entering its fourth day Wednesday, authorities had not removed the group of roughly 20 people from the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon's high desert country. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

The "Oregon standoff" and America

Andrew O'Hehir
Donald Trump; Karen Budd-Falen (AP/YouTube/Salon)

Will Bundy lawyer lead BLM?

Amanda Marcotte
Ammon Bundy arrives for a news conference at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Ore., Jan. 6, 2016. (AP/Rick Bowmer)

Land-use cranks go mainstream

Amanda Marcotte
(AP/John Locher/Matthew Brown/Getty/Jukkisjupi)

Will Zinke Protect The Land?

Amanda Marcotte
Ammon Bundy (AP/Rick Bowmer)

America's mad cowboy disease

William deBuys - TomDispatch.com
Armed law enforcement officers stand near a closed highway about 4 miles outside of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Burns, Ore, after the last four occupiers of the national nature preserve surrendered on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016. (AP/Rebecca Boone)

Not martyrs but buffoons

Amanda Marcotte
The Exxonmobil Baton Rouge Chemical Plant in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, November 6, 2015. (Reuters/Lee Celano)

Kyle Schmidlin
Clockwise, from top left: Ammon Bundy, Ryan Bundy, Brian Cavalier, Shawna Cox, Peter Santilli, Jon Eric Ritzheimer, Ryan Payne, Joseph Donald O'Shaughnessy. (AP/Maricopa County Sheriff's Office)

The Feds Get It Right

Amanda Marcotte
Ronald Reagan; Ed Rollins, Lee Atwater, Lyn Nofziger (AP/Lana Harris/Ed Kolenovsky/Photo montage by Salon)

Reagan made it all worse

Heather Cox Richardson
(AP/Les Zaitz)

Asha Parker
Cowboy Dwane Ehmer, of Irrigon Ore., a supporter of the group occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, rides his horse at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge Friday, Jan. 8, 2016, near Burns, Ore. (AP/Rick Bowmer)

It's the Mormons and the Kochs

Jeffrey Tayler
Ammon Bundy (AP/Rick Bowmer)

Ammon Bundy is not a terrorist

Musa al-Gharbi
(Reuters/Jim Urquhart)

Rebecca Worby
(Reuters/Jim Urquhart)

Asha Parker