"greg walden"
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Mark Koernke discussed the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Harney County, Oregon, featuring a speech by Congressman Greg Walden addressing federal overreach in the West. Walden detailed the Hammond family's sentencing under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act for a prescribed burn, criticized the federal government's mismanagement of public lands and catastrophic wildfires, and explained how bureaucratic reinterpretation of the Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Act undermined local cooperation. Koernke and Walden highlighted systemic problems with federal land agencies, fire suppression policies, and the disproportionate legal consequences imposed on rural landowners.