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Bundyland Two devout Mormon brothers have created a fantasy camp for commandos in Eastern Oregon. On the sixth day of the Harney County siege, a mother and two children visited Ammon Bundy. To pray. The three walked past a silver pickup truck blocking the snowy road, past the three armed guards huddled around a campfire they had built alongside a barricade, and past the TV satellite trucks and a handful of reporters who were waiting for breaking news or the next staging of a press conference.
Oil companies lock in drilling, challenging Biden on climate
by Matthew Brown And Cathy Bussewitz, The Associated Press
Posted Jan 10, 2021 11:07 am EDT
Last Updated Jan 10, 2021 at 11:14 am EDT
BILLINGS, Mont. In the closing months of the Trump administration, energy companies stockpiled enough drilling permits for western public lands to keep pumping oil for years and undercut President-elect Joe Biden’s plans to curb new drilling because of climate change, according to public records and industry analysts.
An Associated Press analysis of government data shows the permit stockpiling has centred on oil-rich federal lands in New Mexico and Wyoming. It accelerated during the fall as Biden was cementing his lead over President Donald Trump and peaked in December, aided by speedier permitting approvals since Trump took office.
BILLINGS, Mont. — In the closing months of the Trump administration, energy companies stockpiled enough drilling permits for western public lands to keep pumping oil for years and undercut. | January 18, 2021
Wyoming county health department vandalized with fake blood
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) Health officials in Wyoming have reported that the exterior doors of the Cheyenne-Laramie County Health Department building were vandalized with fake blood, a few days after a protest was held at the state Capitol against public health orders in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The Wyoming Tribune Eagle reported that department Executive Director Kathy Emmons said the fake blood, commonly used on Halloween, was splattered on the front and side doors on Thursday likely around 5:30 a.m. Cheyenne police spokesperson Alex Farkas said the case is under investigation and is likely tied to protests Monday at the state Capitol.
The US federal census is gone, meaning it is not available for modern genealogists to use. Its loss in a fire in the 1930s was a huge loss to genealogy. Yet, there are ways around the twenty year gap in information its absence left. Land records are one of those ways. This is what they are, where to find them, and how to use them.