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Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy kept more than his cattle when he and his armed militia supporters from Oregon and elsewhere recently backed down the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. BLM officials say he also kept $1 million he owes for grazing without permits.
The BLM and the U.S National Park Service claim that they are simply responding to Mr. Bundyâs refusal to comply with the order by calling in federal agents and contract cowboys to confiscate what they call Mr. Bundyâs âtrespass cattle.â Thus far, they have impounded roughly 277 of Clive Bundyâs estimated 900 cattle. The Bureau of Land Management claims on their website that the, âCattle have been in trespass on public lands in southern Nevada for more than two decades.