An Occupation In Eastern Oregon

'This Land Is Our Land': The Heart Of The Issue — Public Lands

By Amanda Peacher (OPB), Conrad Wilson (OPB) and Dave Blanchard (OPB)
Oct. 15, 2016 3:30 a.m.
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A Northern Pintail looks for food at Malheur Lake on the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

A Northern Pintail looks for food at Malheur Lake on the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

Barbara Wheeler Photography/Malheur National Wildlife Refuge

The occupiers argue the federal government can’t manage public lands as well as state, counties or private entities. They’d even like to see the land transferred. But that’s a pretty big political fight and a move environmental and conservation groups oppose.

On the newest episode of “This Land Is Our Land,” we look at the ideological battle for American’s public lands.


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