Some Republicans in Congress say they will fight to overturn the designation of Nevada’s Gold Butte and Bears Ears in Utah for federal protection, but President-elect Trump doesn’t have the power to turn back the clock, experts say.
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President Barack Obama stepped into a swirling land-use controversy in Nevada on Wednesday and declared a swath of desert known as Gold Butte a National Monument.
The son of rancher Cliven Bundy, arguing on his own behalf, told the judge he can’t adequately prepare for his case while detained and asserted that his right to a speedy trial has been violated.
In a letter Thursday, U.S. Sen. Dean Heller called on the president to “abandon any plans to unilaterally designate” new national monuments in the Gold Butte area of northeastern Clark County and in the Owyhee Canyonlands of southeastern Oregon, near the Nevada border.
A team of researchers from UNLV has announced the discovery of a set of fossilized footprints from a 290-million-year-old reptile on a rock slab in the Gold Butte area, about 115 miles northeast of Las Vegas.
Bunkerville rancher Cliven Bundy is suing Democratic congressional candidate Ruben Kihuen over political attack ads that try to tie Bundy’s 2014 dispute with federal agents to the shooting deaths of two police officers later that year.
U.S. Rep. Cresent Hardy’s campaign is accusing Democratic rival Ruben Kihuen’s campaign of “race-baiting” after a fundraising solicitation from Kihuen suggested Republicans are suppressing the African-American vote.
Ammon Bundy, the leader of a federal wildlife refuge takeover in Oregon, says his group will “continue to stand” after he and six others were acquitted last week of charges in the case.
Both also express disappointment with acquittal of armed group that seized a national wildlife refuge in Oregon to protest incarceration of local ranchers.
A jury on Thursday exonerated brothers Ammon and Ryan Bundy and five others of conspiring to impede federal workers from their jobs at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.