Grazing rights rescinded for controversial Eastern Oregon ranchers
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Steven and Dwight Hammond, Dwight s wife Susie meet with crowd that greeted them in July 2018 at Burns Airport, day after the father and son were issued a presidential pardon and released from federal prison in California.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) A senior adviser in the U.S. Department of Interior has rescinded a January Trump administration decision to grant grazing allotments to an Eastern Oregon ranching family whose members were convicted of arson in a court battle that triggered the takeover of a federal wildlife refuge by right-wing extremists.
The memo Friday from the Interior secretary’s office found that the Trump administration hadn’t allowed for sufficient time to receive and consider public challenges to the permit for Hammond Ranches Inc. It directed the Bureau of Land Management to further consider the matter.