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Today is the prekts otection on site didn't let locals hunt or graze. is that accurate? >> reporter: no, it's not. when obama signed that declaration, none of those rules changed. hunters can hunt, fishermen can fish, cattlemen can graze out there and none of those have changed. really the biggest change was the prohibition of new mining claims, new fracking, new drilling there, but you got to understand the dynamic of these folks. for decades, generation after generation of white settlers down there, they've been left alone and this mass of land, it's their playground. they can ride their atv...

When obama signed that declaration, none of those rules changed. hunters can hunt, fishermen can fish, cattlemen can graze out there and none of those have changed. really the biggest change was the prohibition of new mining claims, new fracking, new drilling there, but you got to understand the dynamic of these folks. for decades, generation after generation of white settlers down there, they've been left alone and this mass of land, it's their playground. they can ride their atvs across it. a few years ago, there was a big crackdown in one of the towns there, they arrested over a dozen peopl...