sprint comes day after authorities arrested and charged the unofficial leader in Oregon militia standoff, which was inspired by similar conservation policiesBarack Obama declared the largest single land monument of his presidency on Friday – the same week that federal officials aggressively targeted rightwing activists who have rebelled against what they characterize as “land grabs”.
Obama nearly doubled the amount of public land he has protected as national monuments with a sprint to conserve nearly 1.8m acres (0.7m hectares) of the California desert. The executive action came one day after federal authorities arrested and charged the unofficial leader of the anti-government movement in the west and successfully ended a militia standoff in Oregon inspired by these kinds of national conservation policies.
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Source: theguardian.com