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Malheur National Wildlife Refuge is a National Wildlife Refuge located roughly 30 miles (48 km) south of the city of Burns in Oregon's Harney Basin.Administered by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, the refuge area is roughly T-shaped with the southernmost base at Frenchglen, the northeast section at Malheur Lake and the northwest section at Harney Lake.
The Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, located in Harney County, was established in 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt, a conservationist. [39] Located in the Pacific Flyway, and currently encompassing 187,757 acres (760 km 2), it is "one of the premiere sites for birds and birding in the U.S.", according to the Audubon Society of Portland. [40]
The Malheur Migratory Bird Refuge was created in 1908. Over the years, the refuge grew to encompass 81,786 acres (330.98 km 2) around Malheur Lake. During the 1930s, the P Ranch near Frenchglen, Oregon and Sod House Ranch south of Malheur Lake were incorporated into the refuge, adding 64,717 acres (261.90 km 2) to the protected wildlife area ...
Burns, Oregon, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Tension flared in the deeply divided town of Burns, Oregon, on Monday as 500 demonstrators on both sides of an armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge ...
The Malheur Migratory Bird Refuge was created in 1908. Over the years, the refuge grew to encompass 81,786 acres (330.98 km 2) around Malheur Lake. In 1935, the United States Government purchased 64,717 acres (261.90 km 2) from the Eastern Oregon Live Stock Company for $675,000, adding the land to the refuge. The refuge was later renamed the ...
Finicum was shot and killed after he tried to flee a traffic stop during the armed occupation by protesters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.
Robert LaVoy Finicum (January 27, 1961 – January 26, 2016) was one of the American militants who staged an armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in January 2016. After it began, the occupying force organized itself as the Citizens for Constitutional Freedom, of which Finicum was a spokesman. He was the only fatality of the ...
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