Violence looming in Wyoming as BLM cleans up decades of oil and gas messes

It’s impossible to imagine a more committed insurrectionist than the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee who gleefully incites his disciples to render a bloodbath on his political enemies.

Amy Edmonds is a Burke, South Dakota girl who attended the University of Wyoming and served in that state's legislature from 2007 to 2013 then became communications director for US Representative Liz Cheney.

In part, nationalized factions have come into our Legislature and enthroned bitter tribalism that continues to grow and fester year after year. With the creation of the Wyoming Freedom Caucus several years ago, we see Congress’ Freedom Caucus begin their new mission to take their angry little show on the road across the country. [The rancor in the Legislature is hurting Wyoming]

Imperiled by the likes of bellicose seditionist Ammon Bundy and Devils Tower-area welfare rancher Chip Neiman (Earth hater-Hulett) public lands employees are fearing for their lives as the Bureau of Land Management drafts its revised plan for 3.6 million acres in southwest Wyoming. Ginned-up belligerents in the so-called "Freedom Caucus" are whining that 8,576 acres or about .02% of the proposed protection area would be locked out to livestock grazing where the current permittee hasn't run cattle for some 27 years. 

BLM-Wyoming Rock Springs Field Office manager Kimberlee Foster said her staffers are being subjected to anti-government threats and menacing remarks some of which appeared in the Cowboy State Daily, a mouthpiece of the far white wing of the Republican Party. Trump adherent, Harriet Hageman, Wyoming's lone US House member is fanning the wildfire and calling for "wiping out" the deep state by targeting federal workers.

“In typical fashion,” Hageman said Wednesday, “the federal government has chosen the very alternative that has the most community opposition and would do the most damage.” The BLM proposed a conservation alternative over a range of other options. [Hageman bill would block BLM’s Rock Springs ‘illegal land grab’ plan]

Under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Wyoming received funding to clean up nine orphaned well sites in the Casper, Lander, Rock Springs, and Worland field offices. For more info, please visit https://t.co/tFW0Pc7Imo pic.twitter.com/JaLbkaK9jK

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