BLM won’t enforce Nevada grazing restrictions in new dispute

BATTLE MOUNTAIN — Federal land managers say they won’t immediately enforce drought-related grazing restrictions in northern Nevada so as to avoid confrontation with ranchers openly defying the order. Conservationists say it’s another example of the government caving in to “scofflaw ranchers” like Cliven Bundy, who continues to graze his cattle illegally in southern Nevada after the BLM backed down from an armed standoff last year. U.S. Bureau of Land Management spokesman Rudy Evenson