Citing public safety concerns, U.S. officials put an early end Saturday to a weeklong roundup of a Nevada rancher's illegally grazing cattle on federal land, which became an Old West-style controversy drawing armed militia groups to the cattleman's side.

"Based on information about conditions on the ground, and in consultation with law enforcement, we have made a decision to conclude the cattle gather because of our serious concern about the safety of employees and members of the public," said Neil Kornze, director of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management...

... "After one week, we have made progress in enforcing two recent court orders to remove the trespass cattle from public lands that belong to all Americans," Kornze said.

He was referring to how two different federal judges ordered the removal of Bundy's cattle, which has been illegally grazing on federal land for 20 years.

BLM fracking racket exposed! Armed siege and cattle theft from Bundy ranch really about fracking leases

BLM collects $1.27 million in shale fracking leases!

(NaturalNews) The Bureau of Land Management says its 200-man armed siege of the Cliven Bundy ranch in Nevada is all about protecting an "endangered tortoise." But a Natural News investigation has found that BLM is actually in the business of raking in millions of dollars by leasing Nevada lands to energy companies that engage in fracking operations.

This document from the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology(1) shows significant exploratory drilling being conducted in precisely the same area where the Bundy family has been running cattle since the 1870's. The "Gold Butte" area is indicated on the lower right corner of the document, and it clearly shows numerous exploratory drilling operations have been conducted there.

http://www.naturalnews.com/044670_blm_lies_fracking_leases_bundy_ranch.html#

This would explain the inactions of the Sheriff and Governor! I wonder how fully their pockets were lined at the expense of the 63 ranches, and ranchers lives and families, they have destroyed.....Clive Bundy being the last of the 64 (original) large ranchers still standing.

Taxpayers are on the hook for over $3 MILLION so far in the illegal cattle roundup alone on the Bundy ranch, not to mention the mobilization of over 200 armed federal agents, maintaining their stay, and the resources needed to clear the way for these corporations to make billions in oil profits......greasing the wheels of govt and lining the pockets of politicians like Reid who make it all possible!

They are already drafting the bill and have confirmed the votes to pass it.

That is not what it's about. As a local Nevadan the Government has been Federalizing the land in Southern Nevada for years because of Groom Lake (Area 51) and the Tonopah Test Range where they need privacy for testing new and improved technologies, that is why Nevada has more Federal land then any other state in the US and it is all in Southern Nevada.

Now, questions surrounding family ties are flaring again in Nevada around the Senate majority leader. He and his oldest son, Rory, are both involved in an effort by a Chinese energy giant, ENN Energy Group, to build a $5 billion solar farm and panel manufacturing plant in the southern Nevada desert.

Reid has been one of the project's most prominent advocates, helping recruit the company during a 2011 trip to China and applying his political muscle on behalf of the project in Nevada. His son, a lawyer with a prominent Las Vegas firm that is representing ENN, helped it locate a 9,000-acre (3,600-hectare) desert site that it is buying well below appraised value from Clark County, where Rory Reid formerly chaired the county commission.

Examples of Recent Incidents of Private Property Damage Caused by Bundy's Trespass Cattle

One feral cow was hit by an automobile within Lake Mead National Recreation Area. Cattle are frequently seen on public roads, including State Route 170 and pose a danger to vehicles and to members of the public traveling on public roads.
Overton Wildlife Refuge (State of Nevada) employee attacked by a Bundy bull.
Crop destroyed by Bundy cattle on private land.
Mesquite Heritage Community Garden damaged by trespass cattle.
Mesquite golf course damaged by trespass cattle.

Examples of Restoration Funding and Viability Impacted

A $400,000 matching grant to restore Southwest Willow Flycatcher habitat along the Virgin River from the Walton Family Foundation was withdrawn until the trespass cattle have been removed.
A $160,000 Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act project to restore Southwestern Willow Flycatcher has been delayed until trespass cattle are removed.
Non-Governmental Organizations have expressed concern that the regional mitigation strategy for the Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone utilizes Gold Butte as the location for offsite mitigation for impacts from solar development, and that those restoration activities are not durable with the presence of trespass cattle.
The Nevada State Department of Wildlife has built extensive fences to protect state and federal lands protected as the Overton Wildlife Refuge from the trespass cattle.

Examples of Public Concerns

Residents of the communities of Bunkerville and Mesquite have complained about the impact of cattle on city facilities.
Within the last month, letters requesting action have also been received from several individuals, Friends of Nevada Wilderness, Friends of Gold Butte and Friends of Joshua Tree Forest.
The Center for Biological Diversity has demanded action to resolve trespass in designated critical desert tortoise habitat in several letters.
Western Watersheds has requested a verbal status update and later filed a Freedom of Information Act request.

Examples of Natural and Cultural Resource Damage

Cattle have crushed artifacts at the "Red Racer" and St. Thomas cultural sites.
Damage to springs, including fecal contamination, trampling soils and vegetation and impacts to wildlife. Wildlife will avoid springs with large numbers of cattle.
Damage to springs with sensitive amphibians, including the rare relict leopard frog.
Multiple instances of vegetation damage to rare plants, including on monitoring plots after extensive wildfires within critical habitat for Desert Tortoise.
Unauthorized reservoir constructed with bulldozer twice.

Bundy's wrong, it's Federal Land and he believes because he is a Mormon and his ancestors have been on that land for over 100 years.

The fear is the protesters are carrying concealed weapons. Everyone in Nevada carries, we are an open carry state, with one of the highest number of concealed carry permits in the country.

.... illegally grazing on federal land for 20 years.

And just what would you base this remarkable bit of wisdom? Let's start with Mormon, what does that have to do with it? That has not been an issue on one side or the other during this whole affair so just how does it figure now.

And just how is it federal land. Where is the authority? And just how is it Bundy's, by right and none other. A common law right between Bundy and the state, yes the state.

The federal stole a lot of land starting in 1909, but they own none of it, it belongs to the state or the people by the constitution. But why does one need to know anything about the constitution, they're indoctrinated to just follow orders and do so very effectively.

Is the Bundy Ranch situation the first test of military against citizens? BIG GOVERNMENT IS DANGEROUS!!!!!

Charlie Daniels (@CharlieDaniels) April 11, 2014

Now the FAA is put in place a no fly zone.
http://rt.com/usa/bundy-ranch-nevada-tensions-940/

They draft all they want. Can even pass it, but it has to go to the president for signature. If he vetoes, then needs super majority to pass. But just for jokes, let's say that they have the super majority, just who is going to execute it? Wouldn't that be Holder? And I'm sure he would want to set that precedent.

Let's see, to arrest one's self, do the cuffs go on before or after you show up at the detention center?

Wow, what will Repugentcants come up with next, repeal Odumbocare?

Did you even bother to watch the video, no. Otherwise how could you have made that statement. Perhaps people being tasered would have given a clue. Or maybe, just perhaps the intimidation by the dogs would have been a clue.

God help us from the.....

Sorry didn't catch this earlier, but this source is a crock. He is referring tot the oil leases up in Wells, at the northern end of he state which has been ongoing for many years. by looking at the national survey maps, southern Neveda is on the southern extremes of the estimated reserves, not a good investment compared to central and northern Neveda.

And where he shows supposed drilling is no where near the Bundy ranch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhJ6H9vlEDA

Video of BLM wanna be cops tasering people, sicking a dog on a pregnant woman and throwing a 57 year old woman and a cancer patient to the ground. The crowd goes nuts and the wannabe cops got in their vehicles and ran like hell.

Did you even bother to watch the video, no. Otherwise how could you have made that statement. Perhaps people being tasered would have given a clue. Or maybe, just perhaps the intimidation by the dogs would have been a clue.

God help us from the.....

I don;t watch links posted in chat sites like this but one comment is that BLM is not wannabees

make no mistake, they the real thing. cops, period.

OK, let's see if I understand what has been happening.

First, this brouhaha started when a Nevada rancher decided that he was exempt from federal law because of what his Mormon ancestors did.

(Yes, the rancher is the one who brought up the subject of his Mormon ancestry.)

Then the same rancher defied two judicial orders made by two federal judges.

Plus, he made some kind of verbal threat against any government agent who might try to enforce those judicial orders.

Thus, when federal agents started enforcing those judicial orders, they came armed.

In response, people with anti-government paranoia grabbed their firearms and went to aid the rancher.

The Bureau of Land Management recognized that such an emotionally-charged situation could provoke a violent outcome. So, the BLM halted its effort to round-up the cattle that was illegally grazing on federal property. The BLM also released the rounded-up cattle to the rancher.