RENO, Nev. (AP) — A longtime government range specialist who claimed he was fired in retaliation for repeatedly reporting illegal livestock grazing on federal land in eastern Nevada has been reinstated as part of a settlement of his whistleblower complaint against the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
An administrative judge for the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board had scheduled a hearing to begin Monday in Oakland, California, on the complaint filed in May by Craig Hoover, who worked for the bureau for 21 years before he was terminated from his job in Ely near the Utah line.
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