For Foreign Corporations the Cost of Grazing Public Lands Should Be Equal to the Cost for Private Lands
Taking THIS Action requests your representatives use their power in the 2025 Budget Allocation for the Department of Interior.
The Owners of the Cattle on our Public Lands can be FOREIGN CORPORATIONS
In many cases the cattle on public lands are NOT OWNED BY the person holding the grazing rights permit. Cattle owned by foreign based corporations often utilize this loophole to PROFIT from American Public Lands. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) imposes a surcharge to grazing permit bills for authorized grazing of livestock that are owned by people other than the permittee or lessee. The surcharge varies by state and is 35% of the difference between the grazing fee and the private grazing land lease rate for the state in the previous year. The National Agricultural Statistics Service determines the private grazing land lease rate for each state.
Proposed Action
- The Bureau of Land Management must be directed to increase on the surcharge in accordance with 43 CFR 4130.8-1(f) for 2025 and future leasing of public lands.
- This increase should result in the cost to foreign entities using American Public Lands to be equivalent to the private lands grazing rate as determined by the National Agricultural Statistics Service for any year beginning in 2025.
- None of the funds made available in this act, in this, past and future fiscal years may be reprogrammed without the advance approval of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations in accordance with the reprogramming procedures contained in the report accompanying this Act.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) manages around 18,000 grazing leases and permits across 155 million acres of public land in 13 states. This area is roughly the size of Oregon and California combined. While the BLM doesn't release an official head count, some advocacy groups and researchers estimate that the permits allow for about 1.5 million cattle to graze
ALLOWING THE MISINFORMATION FROM THE BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT TO BE UNCHALLENGED ENABLES REPEATING THE SAME MISTAKES.
Challenging the misinformation puts the burden of proof on the Bureau of Land Management to prove ‘the negative argument’ that they have appropriately set the rates charged for grazing rights on Public Lands.
That proof will be very difficult in light of the recent science on the origin of the animals and the removal of the ‘Chevron deference’. The courts are no longer required to accept garbage propaganda from the agency as fact.
Taking this action also removes the possibility that under 'Project 2025'' the government might euthanize those in long-term holding.
Pushing back on the BLM to demand better use of taxpayer dollars again puts the BLM in a poor position to defend existing management practices.
Links to further resources:
For Foreign Corporations the Cost of Grazing Public Lands Should Be Equal to the Cost for Private Lands
Taking THIS Action requests your representatives use their power in the 2025 Budget Allocation for the Department of Interior.
The Owners of the Cattle on our Public Lands can be FOREIGN CORPORATIONS
In many cases the cattle on public lands are NOT OWNED BY the person holding the grazing rights permit. Cattle owned by foreign based corporations often utilize this loophole to PROFIT from American Public Lands. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) imposes a surcharge to grazing permit bills for authorized grazing of livestock that are owned by people other than the permittee or lessee. The surcharge varies by state and is 35% of the difference between the grazing fee and the private grazing land lease rate for the state in the previous year. The National Agricultural Statistics Service determines the private grazing land lease rate for each state.
Proposed Action
- The Bureau of Land Management must be directed to increase on the surcharge in accordance with 43 CFR 4130.8-1(f) for 2025 and future leasing of public lands.
- This increase should result in the cost to foreign entities using American Public Lands to be equivalent to the private lands grazing rate as determined by the National Agricultural Statistics Service for any year beginning in 2025.
- None of the funds made available in this act, in this, past and future fiscal years may be reprogrammed without the advance approval of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations in accordance with the reprogramming procedures contained in the report accompanying this Act.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) manages around 18,000 grazing leases and permits across 155 million acres of public land in 13 states. This area is roughly the size of Oregon and California combined. While the BLM doesn't release an official head count, some advocacy groups and researchers estimate that the permits allow for about 1.5 million cattle to graze
ALLOWING THE MISINFORMATION FROM THE BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT TO BE UNCHALLENGED ENABLES REPEATING THE SAME MISTAKES.
Challenging the misinformation puts the burden of proof on the Bureau of Land Management to prove ‘the negative argument’ that they have appropriately set the rates charged for grazing rights on Public Lands.
That proof will be very difficult in light of the recent science on the origin of the animals and the removal of the ‘Chevron deference’. The courts are no longer required to accept garbage propaganda from the agency as fact.
Taking this action also removes the possibility that under 'Project 2025'' the government might euthanize those in long-term holding.
Pushing back on the BLM to demand better use of taxpayer dollars again puts the BLM in a poor position to defend existing management practices.
Links to further resources: