RALEIGH--North Carolina's Chapter of the Wildlife Federation is supporting the arrests of 11 people who occupied federal property in Oregon.

One person is dead and the leader of the group occupying federal property in Oregon, Ammon Bundy, is under arrest, along with several fellow protesters. The F-B-I and local law enforcement agencies stopped the group Tuesday outside of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

Many sportsmen and women in North Carolina and the rest of the country have opposed the takeover of the refuge. Richard Mode with the North Carolina Wildlife Federation North Carolina affiliate says because the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge belongs to taxpayers it is a personal issue for every American.

Bundy and others are facing federal felony charges of conspiracy to impede officers of the U-S through the use of force from discharging their official duties. The protesters were demanding the federal government release ranchers convicted of arson on federal lands, turn federal lands over to private ownership, void federal grazing permits and allow the local management of the lands in question.