{"id":4854,"date":"2021-01-04T21:41:46","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=146125"},"modified":"2021-01-04T21:41:46","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:41:46","slug":"trump-administration-reissues-grazing-permit-to-oregon-arsonist-ranchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/04\/trump-administration-reissues-grazing-permit-to-oregon-arsonist-ranchers\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Administration Reissues Grazing Permit to Oregon Arsonist Ranchers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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WASHINGTON – In the very last moments of 2020, the Bureau of Land Management issued a proposed decision to award grazing privileges to Hammonds Ranches, Inc., despite the history of abuses of grazing privileges by these public land\u2019s ranchers\u2014including actions leading to arson convictions. The BLM notified interested parties of the decision on New Year\u2019s Day, a federal holiday.<\/p>\n

\u201cGiving the permit to the Hammonds shows a flagrant disregard for the rule of law, both by the former permittees and by Secretary Bernhardt, and is clearly a political move rather than a responsible allocation of public lands,\u201d said Erik Molvar, Executive Director of Western Watersheds Project. \u201cThere is a documented history of permit violations, criminal convictions, and overgrazing of allotments as recently as 2019<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The proposed grazing decision was posted late in the day on December 31, 2020<\/a>, and the online planning site states that the Hammonds Ranches, Inc. \u201cwill be apportioned preference due to their extensive historic use of these allotments, past proper use of rangeland resources, a high level of general need, and advantages conferred by topography.\u201d The Hammonds past \u201cproper\u201d use of the allotments has included arson, unauthorized livestock use, overgrazing, and alleged intimidation<\/a> of federal employees. Just six years ago, the Bureau of Land Management refused to reissue<\/a> the same permits because, \u201cThe Hammonds\u2019 malicious disregard for human life and public property shows contempt for BLM regulation of public lands.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s reminiscent of Secretary Ryan Zinke\u2019s decision to give the Hammonds permits on his very last day in office on January 2, 2019,\u201d said Sarah McMillan, Conservation Director for WildEarth Guardians. \u201cThat decision was unlawful and rightly overturned by the courts<\/a>. With one foot out the door, the Trump Administration is trying, again, to allow these bad-actor permittees to run roughshod over public lands.\u201d<\/p>\n

The groups plan to protest the proposed decision.<\/p>\n\n

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