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EXCLUSIVE: Heather Maude on where her case stands, her experience with USDA, and why it's not over yet

Six months after the press conference in D.C., Heather fills us in on what's happened since and answers your questions.

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Keely Covello
Oct 29, 2025
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Charles Maude and Pistol on the family’s South Dakota ranch. Photo courtesy: Heather Maude

For ranchers in the West, Heather Maude became the reluctant face of government overreach when she and her husband Charles were threatened with 20 years in prison over a fence on their South Dakota ranch.

It wasn’t a fight she saw coming.

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