Winter and spring have passed since an armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge ended, but its aftershocks are still shaking this high desert region. The headquarters of the 188,000-acre Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, which was occupied for 41 days, is still closed. Activists who didn’t like the way he treated armed occupiers of a federal wildlife refuge want him recalled in a June 28 recall election. Grasty says it was absurd for Bundy, who said he wanted to turn the federal refuge over to local residents, to ask to use county property. Burns is the main town in Harney County, which at more than 10,000 square miles is the largest in Oregon.

Source: Washington Post June 27, 2016 01:28 UTC