Carol Bundy, a mother of 14 and grandmother of 52, insists that her family is trying to "keep it peaceful" and do it "the constitutional way," but so far, she said, that has not worked.
"[Federal rangers] are walking around heavily armed and trying to intimidate and trying to harass," Bundy said. "There are snipers on the hill. They have cameras on our house."
Richardson said he has also noticed the presence of armed BLM law enforcement agents. "I can definitely confirm that," he said. "There are armed agents crawling through that area."
The BLM did not immediately respond to a request for comment from HuffPost on Friday.
But media reports say that armed federal law enforcement agents have locked down a large area as contract employees work to round up the Bundy cattle.
Carol Bundy said that the federal government should just back off.
"Our water and our livestock rights are filed with the state," she claimed. "If you have water rights filed, then you also have access and forage rights for your cattle. We don’t own the land; we own the rights to use that land for livestock."
Bundy acknowledges that her family owes significant money in unpaid grazing fees, but she refuses to pay that money to the federal government.
"Everybody wants to put out there that [we] have not paid [for] grazing rights, but we did try to pay the fees to Clark County and the state of Nevada," she said. "We tried to pay to the people we filed the water rights with, but they refused to take it."
Bundy said she and her 67-year-old husband are not budging.
"We're standing for liberty," said Bundy. "We're not going to move. We're not giving up. We're actually gaining strength."
"We have the support of the nation behind us," she said.
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