Las Vegas Sun

May 4, 2024

How Bundys won in Nevada, and what government needs to do differently in Oregon

Ranching Standoff

Rick Bowmer / AP

Ammon Bundy, center, one of the sons of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, walks off after speaking with reporters during a news conference at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters Monday, Jan. 4, 2016, near Burns, Ore.

In his 34 years in government, Bob Abbey has seen a lot of drama out West. He ran the Bureau of Land Management, one of the agencies at the center of the armed occupation of a federal wildlife building in Oregon, for three years, and before that he ran the agency's state operation in Nevada.

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