#malheur wildlife refuge

[burnsoregonphotoblog]

Historic blacksmith shop on Double O Ranch in Harney County, Oregon; listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982; now part of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge United States Fish and Wild Life Service (Brad Ehlers) - Photo submitted with National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form for Double O Ranch Historic District; prepared by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, United States Department of Interior

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[stochastique-blog]

You can be someone else

Brave local and Federal Law Enforcement officers secure the road to the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge center currently under siege by radical extremists in Oregon.

[quantumviolet1024]

[dhyzenmedia]

Ranching Outpost on the Malheur Wildlife Refuge

[herpsandbirds]

White-lined Sphinx Moth (Hyles lineata), family Sphingidae, Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, OR, USA

photograph by Linda Storey

[stochastique-blog]

Weird

Robert ‘LaVoy’ Finicum during a press conference last week. 

[hero-israel]

On the subject of AJ+: in my foolish youth I watched some of their YouTube videos and I distinctly remember that their reporter Dena Takruri did an interview with LaVoy Finicum, one of the right-wing nutjobs who occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge who a few weeks later would decide to scream at armed FBI agents that they would have to killed them while reaching into his pockets and get his damfool self shot to death, and it was notably more sympathetic than literally any video she or AJ+ had ever done regarding Israel.

Also I remember them doing a video in response to Israel declaring hummus and felafel to be their official national foods, where they said essentially “hummus is from Lebanon, felafel is from Egypt….which means this is cultural appropriation of Palestinian culture!”

Clowns, the lot of them

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[jadeseadragon]

White-faced Ibis (Plegadis chihi)

"flood-irrigated ranchlands in the Silvies River Floodplain in Harney County, near Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, support large numbers of bird species, most notably waterfowl and other waterbirds during the spring and fall migration periods." [source]

I recently saw a small flock of these ibises feeding in an irrigated field a few miles from my home. Until then I wasn't even aware that Oregon had a native ibis species.

[mutant-distraction]

Steven Kratka Photography

Great Horned Owl watching. Photograph taken at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Oregon. USA

[the-eternal-quest-for-balance]

It's called entrapment. Which is what January 6th was. The Federal Government creating a situation, labeling it as something it wasn't, the prosecuting people for it.

Randy Weaver is an example, The Bundy's, Malheur National Wildlife Refuge where they murdered LaVoy, the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot, hundreds of other examples are out there as well.

People however, are getting a lot smarter and the Alphabet asswipes aren't. Most can spot a Fed a mile away these days. Some have always been able to smell them.

[burnsoregonphotoblog]

"Big Country" Harney County, Oregon

Vintage Postcard - Photo from the Malheur Wildlife Refuge

"Snow Geese pause for a much needed rest in their annual migration along the Pacific Flyway. They are accompanied by Canadian Geese, Whistling Swans and other northern bred waterfowl. Movie and still photographers have a rare opportunity to record on film these majestic birds while they are renewing their strength and energy."

[arkoptrix]

Malheur National Wildlife Refuge at dusk ...

[cavenewstimes]

Conservative Oregon county attempts criminal prosecution of federal employee

BURNS, OR – JANUARY 07: Dwayne Ehmer carries an American flag as he rides his horse on the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge on January 7, 2016 near Burns, Oregon. An armed anti-government militia occupied the headquarters there as to protest the jailing of two ranchers for arson. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Justin…

[nando161mando]

"Nearly three years on, I still think this interview w/ @_grendan is amongst the best conversations on exactly how American border politics play out and the contradictions necessary to keep American capitalism afloat." via @proteanmag

[gracedenton]

“THEY MUST HAVE FELT great out there. Even if they didn’t really know much about it, even if they were (and they were) basically lost, it’s still an awesome place and it must’ve been great just to be there. Let’s leave aside, for the moment, the question of what a place is, or what it is to be lost, or lost in place; let’s stick to the feelings, even if place is a feeling, and even if lost is often how one feels, or finds one’s way to feeling. It must have felt grand just to be there in that land, in that ’scape, there where they were — in a territory newly liberated, freshly invented, mapped out by the lines of their activity, of their feelings. After all, they weren’t just there, they weren’t just in it, they were it — and it, their own new thing, was cradled in all this shimmering enormity.”

Extract from Anthony McCann’s Malheur Part 1: Sovereign Feelings on the misplaced protest demonstrated in the occupation of Malheur Wildlife Refuge in 2014

“For centuries it had all been Paiute land — though, as the tribe takes pains to point out, traditional understandings of the land involve a type of relationship far more intimate than that imagined and codified by private property. “It’s more like family than property,” said Diane Teeman, the tribe archaeologist. The condition described in “owning land” feels brittle and impoverished indeed if your relationship to the land is closer to the connection you feel to your aunt or to your grandfather, than the one you have with your shoes. White folks had come relatively late to the basin. The first written record of white travel through the territory now occupied by the Wildlife Refuge and the rest of the county is from a fur trading company exploration headed by Peter Skene Ogden, whose expeditions provided initial reconnaissance to Europeans on much of the Great Basin Desert of contemporary Oregon, Nevada, and Utah. Here he is, from his journal, stunned by the size of the population gathered in the traditional camps at the lakes that form the center of the Wildlife Refuge today: “It is incredible the number of Indians in this quarter. We cannot go 10 yds, without finding them. Huts generally of grass of a size to hold 6 or 8 persons. No Indian nation so numerous as these in all North America [...] They lead a most wandering life.” While, historically, the description of the lives of Great Basin native peoples as “wandering” has often been used to undermine their claims to their ancestral homes, it is hard to imagine a kind of life with a more intimate claim to land than that practiced by these desert tribes. The Wadatika followed a life of seasonal movements that themselves were part of a reverent, ceremony-filled attention to the land that had sustained their ancestors and their practices for millennia. The archeological record marks out the shape of a persistence of habitation and life practices hard to hold in the mind, as often happens in the deserts of the west, where human temporalities hang out with geologic time. People here, right here, hunted mammoths — and they were still here when the mammoths were gone and the land turned to desert, and they themselves turned to gathering, and to new hunting techniques like those used to catch rabbits in expansive nets in yearly drives, or the ritual magic used to charm herds of antelope so that they entered willingly into earthen pens. They also developed an internal map of the edible roots and seeds of the basin, of its buttes, and slopes, and of the forests in the mountains at the basin’s edge.”

[stochastique-blog]

I dont Understand...

Sandy Anderson checks her cellphone at the blockaded entrance to the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Sandy, along with her husband Sean, is one of the 4 last armed militants occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge