Think Out Loud

10 years after the armed occupation of Malheur Wildlife Refuge

By Sage Van Wing (OPB)
Jan. 2, 2026 2 p.m.

Broadcast: Friday, Jan. 2

Ammon Bundy talks with occupiers at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in January 2016.

Ammon Bundy talks with occupiers at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in January 2016.

Kristian Foden-Vencil / OPB

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On Jan. 2, 2016 a dozen armed men took over the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Eastern Oregon. Today we listen back to a documentary OPB reporters made about the 41 days that followed.

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