As we enter Day 10 of the standoff at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, here are the latest developments:

* Law enforcement officials are getting a lot of unsolicited help to end the ongoing armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. From Rep. Dallas Heard to self-styled patriots from Idaho to a local safety committee, more and more outsiders, many of them armed, have descended on this remote corner of Oregon.

* In another bizarre turn of events surrounding the ongoing armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge, an Oregon state legislator from outside Harney County arrived with out-of-state elected officials in tow and met with the protesters. The visit angered local leaders such as Harney County Judge Steven E. Grasty, who said, "Why in the world would an out-of-area legislator think that he can come in here and fix it? He's probably the most inexperienced legislator in the state of Oregon. ... It just seems bizarre."

* Ammon Bundy and his band of militants appeared ready to settle in for the long haul Saturday when a rifle-toting "security detail" of self-described Patriots showed up, breaking the relative lull that had fallen over their weeklong standoff at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

* They're military veterans and small business owners. Some have authored books and others lost their jobs to join the cause. Meet the cast of characters who are occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters, and find out what's known about their roles. Some appear to have spent the night continuously, while others have come and gone. A few people describe themselves, in videos from the compound, as sympathetic visitors who drove great distances to see firsthand what's happening.

* As it turns out, "local control" might not pan out so well for locals. Ranchers and federal land managers have a longstanding and symbiotic relationship across the west. But the relationship is a contentious one, too, providing fuel that stokes an ongoing standoff at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Militants occupying the refuge say their goal is to divvy up its tens of thousands of acres among dozens of ranchers, and wrest control of all public land in Harney County back from the federal government. But an analysis by The Oregonian/OregonLive shows that blowing up a century-old system of federal control over public rangelands wouldn't be a good thing for most ranchers in Harney County or elsewhere.

* It's been more than a week since armed protesters took control of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters, but the conflict over federal land management began years before that. See how the eastern Oregon standoff started and how it's progressed.

* Greg Walden took to the floor of the U.S. House on Tuesday night prepared to give a five-minute address about the occupation in Oregon. Instead, "I threw it aside," Walden said, and launched into an unscripted speech remarkable for its emotion and blunt clubbing of federal agencies, and as a paean to the Western lifestyle. He went on for nearly a half hour, and the video has logged more than 100,000 views. See video highlights.

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