Econews Report 3.03.2016; Malheur Wildlife Refuge (PART 1)

(PART 1) Scott Greacen and guest Dan Barton, Assistant Professor of Wildlife Biology at Humboldt State University, discuss Malheur Wildlife Refuge; its significant history for first peoples, its importance as a bird sanctuary and the largest freshwater marsh in the continental US, and the armed occupation through most of January and February. They further discuss the ideologies and prior threats and acts of violence leading up to the armed occupation, as well as a history of wildlife conservation.

Dan is the author of a series of three essays about Malheur and the occupation - What Harney County and the Malheur Occupation Means (to Me), What Harney County and the Malheur Occupation Means (to Us), What Harney County and the Malheur Occupation Means (to Them).