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A Sagebrush Rebel returns to Interior

Budd-Falen has spent her career fighting the agency; Mining Monitor; "Avalanche" comes out from behind the paywall

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Jonathan P. Thompson
Mar 07, 2025
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Ryan Bundy speaks at the 2014 Recapture rally to protest federal land management, which took place just days after armed insurrectionists threatened federal officers who had tried to detain Cliven Bundy’s cattle, which had long been grazing on public lands illegally. Karen Budd-Falen — reportedly appointed to be the number three at Interior — represente…
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