Ranchers use best practices to make Sierra Nevada grazing sustainable
“Grazing has been around for a long time, way before cattle were here, and it’s a natural function of keeping a sustainable forest…” Cattle in the Sierra It’s well known…
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Hammond Family BLM Grazing Permits are Reinstated
According to Drovers Journal, and other media outlets, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has restored grazing permits for the Hammond family from Oregon after losing the right to…
Unfinished Business — Constitutional Loose-ends, and How Private Property Rights Are Created on Public Lands — by Todd Macfarlane
First published in Range magazine, Summer 2018 issue. SEE Also The Laws of Prior Appropriation & Beneficial Use — Realities that Nobody Wants to Talk About. Divisions and factions…
Response to PLC’s & Its Lawyers’ Attack on the Range Allotment Owners Association — by Tim K. Smith
PLC and Legal Community Comment on the Range Allotment Owners Association [Please refer to the added, numbered and underlined phrases addressed in the comments listed below] WASHINGTON (Feb. 20,…
Legal Tools for Federal Grazing Allotment Owners & Operators — in a Nutshell
In addition to dispelling popular misconceptions we’re offering a nutshell overview of legal tools for western ranchers with federal grazing allotments. DISPELLING COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS REGARDING “GRAZING FEES” UNDERSTANDING PRIOR…
What To Do About Growing Conflicts Over Rangelands in the West — Part 3
The lack of well-defined and transferable federal grazing rights presents serious obstacles to resolving rangeland disputes in a cooperative and mutually beneficial manner. These obstacles have important effects on the…
What To Do About Growing Conflicts Over Rangelands in the West — Part 2
Grazing rights are inherently tenuous because agencies continually reallocate rangeland resources and adjust -so-called grazing privileges to meet changing political conditions. Moreover, without the right to acquire grazing permits for…
What to Do About Growing Conflicts Over Rangelands in the West — Part 1
In January 2016, an armed militia group seized control of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon. Their goal: to protest federal control over western rangelands. It’s the latest…
WHY? — a Perpetual Question in the War on the West
Because, in the minds of many, the right amount of public lands grazing is NO GRAZING, the Federal Government seeks to put the last rancher in Clark County (Cliven…
Can Cows Save the Planet? — Guest Editorial — by Trent Loos
Reposted from High Plains Journal Why do people outside of the farming community continue to lie about our industry? They romanticize and talk about loving the small family farmer,…
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