2021/02/27 08:56 PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) A senior adviser in the U.S. Department of Interior on Friday rescinded a January Trump administration decision to grant grazing allotments to an Oregon ranching family whose members were convicted of arson in a court battle that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 new memo 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. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the latest action came just days before the cattle were expected to be turned out on public lands neighboring the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon.
Laura Daniel-Davis, a senior advisor exercising delegated authority of the assistant secretary of land and minerals management, signed the Interior Secretary Office memo that rescinds the awarding of the grazing permit to Hammond Ranches Inc., and sends the matter back to the Bureau of Land Management for additional consideration.
Grazing rights rescinded for controversial Eastern Oregon ranchers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 (AP) A senior adviser in the U.S. Department of Interior has rescinded a January Trump administration decision to grant grazing allotments to an Eastern Oregon ranching family whose members were convicted of arson in a court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.
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