Ammon Bundy's goals appear modest these days.
"I'm gonna keep raising my kids and trying to be a good provider for my family and a good husband," he told reporters over the weekend. "Besides that, I have no immediate plans."
Ten months have passed since the federal government's latest prosecution effort against Bundy - for his family's armed 2014 confrontation with federal agents near his father's Nevada ranch - unraveled. Bundy was previously acquitted in Oregon on federal charges after he and others seized the Malheur National Wildlife refuge in Harney County in 2016.
He said the family's Nevada ranch continues to prosper, but he said his Phoenix-based vehicle-maintenance business has dwindled from 20 employees to three.
He has "no aspirations to jump into politics," he said, unlike older brother Ryan, who's running for Nevada governor.
But he was here last Saturday at a hotel in the Montana ski resort town of Whitefish, about 30 miles west of Glacier National Park, at a daylong conference sponsored by a local group called This West is OUR West, whose website describes Western states as "under siege from federal government over-reach."
Bundy's oft-repeated refrain from the armed Malheur takeover - that states, not the federal government, should control public land - fit well with that group's view and with a conference agenda that covered everything from Native American tribal sovereignty to the intentions of the United Nations. Bundy had his pocket Constitution with him but opted for a PowerPoint presentation instead of guns. It was the second time a Bundy family member has spoken in Montana this year. Father Cliven Bundy and brother Ryan Bundy spoke in January in Paradise, north of Missoula...
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