1 Rancher Renounces Federal Grazing Contract At Bundy Event

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“I’m very happy he came all the way from New Mexico,” Bundy said.
Critics of Bundy’s group also attended Saturday’s event, which was held a few hours after a small counter-protest nearby.
Kieran Suckling with the Center for Biological Diversity said the leaders of the armed group want to “stage another occupancy like this and to terrorize those towns the same way they have terrorized Burns. There’s no town in the west that wants to be the next Burns.”
Katie Fite from Boise, Idaho, called the occupiers bullies and said their action could give rise to other hate-filled efforts to take over public lands.
Federal authorities are trying to resolve the three-week old standoff, but have so far made no moves against Bundy’s group. On Friday Bundy met briefly with a federal agent at the airport in Burns, but Bundy left because the agent wouldn’t talk with him in front of the media.

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has said she’s angry because federal authorities have not dealt with Bundy’s group.
Bundy, speaking to The Associated Press late Friday while sitting at a desk inside one of the refuge buildings, dismissed the governor’s request.
“It just again shows the ignorance of some of our elected officials,” he said. “It’s just amazing that she would just disregard the Constitution to the point where she would think it would be OK to give the federal government that authority to come in and take some dynamic action or something like that.”
The group has recently bolstered a front entrance blockade with timbers and set up another checkpoint at a back entrance. The AP was not allowed to enter the area Friday without an escort from an armed militant.

At community meetings, local residents have asked Bundy and his group to leave.
Bundy has said he believes his group’s work is appreciated by locals. He told AP the federal government had turned grazing from a “right” to a “privilege.”

For the BLM and Forest Service, grazing fees are based on something called an animal unit month, or AUM. That’s defined as the amount of forage needed to sustain one cow and her calf, one horse, or five sheep or goats for a month.

That’s set through a Congressionally mandated formula. Currently, the cost is $1.69 per AUM. Grazing contracts typically run 10 years. The BLM said that in fiscal year 2014, it spent $34.3 million on livestock grazing administration and collected $12.1 million in grazing fees.

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