April 12, 2014 by Tad Cronn
Follow the money and you'll inevitably find out what's really going on. In the case of Clark County, Nevada, rancher Cliven Bundy's standoff with
federal agents from the Bureau of Land Management, the leading explanation has
been that he hasn't paid grazing fees and his cattle threaten endangered desert
tortoises in the Gold Butte area.
But the fact of the BLM bringing in hundreds of armed rangers with trucks and
helicopters seemed over the top for protection of a tortoise that has clearly
survived despite more than a century of ranching by the Bundy family, and which
the BLM had previously been slaughtering with the excuse that it lacked funding
to care for the animals.
As reported by the Associated Press in August, the Desert Tortoise Conservation
Center in Southern Las Vegas, funded by the BLM, was looking at killing half of
its 1,400 tortoises because it could not afford to keep its doors open since
the housing collapse resulted in less income from developers……To Read More….
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