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Long before Cliven Bundy faced down federal agents in his dispute with the Bureau of Land Management over grazing rights, fellow Nevada rancher Raymond Yowell, an 84-year-old former Shoshone chief, watched as the BLM seized his herd. Adding to that, since 2008 they've taken his money as well -- in the form of a piece of his Social Security checks. Yowell's 132 head of cattle had grazed for decades on the South Fork Western Shoshone Indian Reservation in northeastern Nevada until 2002, when the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) -- the same agency at odds with Bundy -- seized them....

It's rather hard to believe in this day and age, but there's a range war in Nevada that's heating up. The last rancher in Clark County, Nevada, is defying the federal government's orders to remove his cattle from grazing on federal land. The land in question was restricted by the feds in 1998 from being used for grazing in favor of the desert tortoise, which is an endangered species. The rancher, Cliven Bundy, has been in a standoff with federal authorities since then. He stopped paying grazing fees stating that his family has used the land for 140 years, and...