Dwight Hammond, now 73 , and Steven Hammond, now 46 , were both sentenced to 5 years in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken.
This is a monumental miscarriage of justice. For these ranchers to be subjected to terrorism laws is outrageous.
In that area it used to be that junipers and sagebrush was burned or eradicated by using bulldozers pulling a huge chain between them to encourage grass for grazing. In that country 139 acres is like a cup of water being added to Harney lake.
The BLM and this judge should be tarred and feathered.