Tensions have escalated between protesters and federal police who
used a stun gun on a son of a Nevada rancher fighting a roundup of
cattle that he claims have historical grazing rights northeast of Las
Vegas. No serious injuries were reported and no arrests were made,
but family members told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that rancher
Cliven Bundy's 57-year-old sister also was knocked to the ground during a
confrontation Wednesday involving dozens of protesters and several U.S.
Bureau of Land Management rangers. The son, Ammon Bundy, told the Spectrum of St. George, Utah, (http://bit.ly/1euilKE ) that he was hit with stun charges twice.
He acknowledged that he climbed on a dump truck, suspecting that it contained cattle that had been killed during the roundup...more
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Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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