In January 2016, armed militants led by Ammon Bundy, seized the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon in an attempt to control US public lands. Kirk Siegler/NPR hide caption
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Cliven Bundy listens to other speakers before giving the keynote address to the state convention of the Independent American Party of Nevada, in February 2018. Scott Sonner/AP hide caption
Wyoming attorney Karen Budd-Falen, recently named as Deputy Solicitor for Parks and Wildlife at the Department of the Interior, sits in her law office in Cheyenne, Wyo. Mead Gruver/AP hide caption
The Jan. 26, 2016, shooting incident at the center of Joseph Astarita's trial was captured on an FBI video. FBI/AP hide caption
William Keebler has pleaded guilty to trying to blow up a federally owned cabin in Arizona in 2016. Salt Lake County, Utah, Sheriff's Office via AP hide caption
Gary Stone of the Otero County Cattlemen's Association says ranchers held off activists who wanted a Bundy-style protest over control of federal land. Instead they waged their battle in the courts. Kirk Siegler/NPR hide caption
In Rural New Mexico, Ranchers Wage Their Battle Through The Courts
Ammon Bundy (from left), Ryan Payne and Ryan Bundy on the day a mistrial was declared last month. They were joined by Jeanette Finicum, widow of Robert "LaVoy" Finicum, and Ryan's wife and daughter. John Locher/AP hide caption
Judge Dismisses Federal Case Against Cliven Bundy And Sons, Bars Retrial
Ammon Bundy walks out of a federal courthouse in Las Vegas on Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro declared a mistrial in the case against Cliven Bundy, his sons Ryan and Ammon, and self-styled Montana militia leader Ryan Payne. John Locher/AP hide caption
Protesters supporting Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy outside the federal courthouse in Las Vegas. Kirk Siegler/NPR hide caption
Supporters of rancher Cliven Bundy camp near his ranch on in Bunkerville, Nev., in April 2014. Bundy and the Bureau of Land Management have been locked in a decades-long dispute after Bundy stopped paying grazing fees, which led to an armed standoff against the U.S. government in 2014. David Becker/Getty Images hide caption
The protected Malheur National Wildlife Refuge is one of the most important migratory bird corridors on the West Coast and also has long been important to the eastern Oregon agricultural economy. Kirk Siegler/NPR hide caption
Anti-Government Standoff Puts Oregon's Malheur Back On Tourist Map
For Vernon Lee of the Moapa Band of Paiutes, a national monument designation for Gold Butte would be the next best thing to having the U.S. government return the land to his people. Kirk Siegler hide caption
A truck displaying a bumper sticker at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters on Jan. 5 near Burns, Ore. Armed anti-federalists took over the wildlife refuge in Oregon for 41 days. The occupation ended on Feb. 11. Rick Bowmer/AP hide caption
Utah Sheriffs Threaten To Arrest Rangers If They Try To Close Public Lands
Many Western ranchers don't own much land themselves and rely on vast tracts of federal land for grazing. Kirk Siegler/NPR hide caption
Even With Bundy Behind Bars, 'Range War' Lives On For Some Ranchers
Shawna Cox, seen here walking with Ammon Bundy and other armed anti-government protesters at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Ore., last month, cites "extremely serious public corruption" in a countersuit. Both Cox and Bundy face federal charges. Rob Kerr/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Cliven Bundy stands along the road near his ranch after speaking with media in Bunkerville, Nev., on Jan. 27. His sons led the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon, and he was arrested Wednesday on charges stemming from a 2014 standoff with federal agents. John Locher/AP hide caption
Cliven Bundy's Arrest Caps Years Of Calls For Government To Take Action
Media wait at a checkpoint about 4 miles from the Malheur Wildlife Refuge Headquarters near Burns, Ore., as the sun rises on Thursday. The FBI had surrounded the last four protesters holed up at a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon and were waiting for them to surrender. Rob Kerr/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
"Get in line" is what William Anderson, former chairman of the Moapa Band of Paiutes, says of the current take-back-federal-lands movement. Kirk Siegler/NPR hide caption
People gather as Ammon Bundy speaks with reporters during a news conference at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters on Monday near Burns, Ore. Bundy's occupation of the federal land started on Saturday. Rick Bowmer/AP hide caption
Oregon Occupation Sheds Light On Local Frustrations, But Divides Residents
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Oregon Occupation Sheds Light On Local Frustrations, But Divides Residents
Cliven Bundy speaks during a news conference on April 24, 2014, near his ranch in Bunkerville, Nev. David Becker/Getty Images hide caption
Protesters in Burns, Ore., march toward the home of Dwight Hammond Jr., a local rancher convicted of arson on federal land. The Jan. 2 protest was peaceful, but ended with a group of militiamen occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Amelia Templeton/OPB hide caption
Ranchers And The Federal Government: The Long History Of Conflict
Rancher Cliven Bundy holds his 5-month-old grandson Roper Cox on Saturday in Bunkerville, Nev. Bundy was hosting an event to mark one year since the Bureau of Land Management's failed attempt to collect his cattle. John Locher/AP hide caption
Year After Denying Federal Control, Bundy Still Runs His Bit Of Nevada
Interior Secretary Sally Jewell takes a tour of the Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge in Townsend, Ga., last week with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service refuge manager Kimberly Hayes. Stephen B. Morton/AP hide caption