[NPR Ted Robbins reports on a standoff between the federal Bureau of Land Management and a Nevada rancher].

Ryan Bundy, the son of Cliven Bundy a longtime cattle rancher, explains the dispute between his family and the Bureau of Land Management and how it has subsided. Matthew Pearce, a student studying western ranching at the University of Oklahoma, explains how Western ranchers have always had a leery mindset towards the Federal government. Rob Mrowka, of the Center for Biological Diversity, tells how the desert does not support enough vegetation to uphold the desert tortoise and cattle populations. Ted Robbins reports on how the Federal government is saying Cliven Bundy owes substantial back fees for allowing cattle to graze on federal land and how the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) had begun rounding up Bundy's cattle. But following protests from Bundy and hundreds of others, some armed, the BLM has backed down. On "All things considered".

Broadcast on NPR, Apr. 14, 2014.