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The twisted roots of U.S. land policy in the West

The twisted roots of U.S. land policy in the West

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The seizure of a Malheur National Wildlife Refuge building in southeastern Oregon by armed and self-styled "constitutionalists" was disturbing. To many it is viewed as a dangerous escalation in a long, admittedly heated and passionate but rarely violent, discussion of federal or public land management in the western United States.

The seizure of a Malheur National Wildlife Refuge building in southeastern Oregon by armed and self-styled "constitutionalists" was disturbing. To many it is viewed as a dangerous escalation in a long, admittedly heated and passionate but rarely violent, discussion of federal or public land management in the western United States.…