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How top Zinke aides are undermining protections for public lands and endangered species.
By John Dougherty
Operating in the shadows of the Trump administration’s chaos and the financial scandals dogging Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, a trio of political appointees is now in place to accelerate an already aggressive effort to quickly offer leases for millions of acres of public land to the oil and gas industry.
Cattle rancher’s armed insurrection, rooted in religious extremism, goes on trial.
By John Dougherty
Academic research on Mormon history, theology and the Mormon migration to the Great Basin to create what the early western settlers called the promised land of Zion provides a framework for understanding Cliven Bundy.