Congress Should Amend the 2025 Dept of Interior Funding Allocation to Require Increased Grazing Fees on Public Lands
Ask Congress to Amend the 2025 Dept of Interior Funding Allocation to Require Increasing Grazing Fees on Public Lands
There are roughly 18,000 grazing leases and permits across 155 million acres of public land in 13 states Bureau of Land Management (BLM) manages around. Estimates indicate that the grazing permits on Public Lands managed by the BLM allow for about 1.5 million cattle.
Direct government expenditures to administer public land grazing constitute an annual net loss to the taxpayers of at least $123 million and more than $500 million when indirect costs are accounted for. As much as 96% of these public dollars are spent to enhance livestock production in direct conflict with legal mandates to restore the health of public lands. For all of this public expense, public lands ranching fails to demonstrate any significant economic contributions to rural economies. Hobby ranchers and corporate entities hold the lion’s share of grazing permits on hundreds of millions of acres of public lands. Westeren Watersheds
- By this Act the Bureau of Land Management is directed to increase the annual grazing fee on public lands. At minimum the Bureau of Land Management is directed to increase the income generated by grazing fees so that the negative impact to the taxpayer is eliminated. It must not cost more annually to operate a grazing program than the program takes in.
- By this act the Taylor Grazing (43 USC 315) is amended to preclude holders of grazing permits to use public lands as collateral for private loans. The Bureau of Land Management shall make the names and contact information for holders of existing loans available to the public.
Public Lands Increasingly Fail to Meet Rangeland health Standards set by the BLM
2014 America’s Heritage: Wild Horse Herds Mismanaged
- BLM precluded from using funds for roundups
- BLM precluded from using funds for new adoptions
- BLM precluded from procurement of forage on the commercial market
- BLM directed to incorporate rewilding for control of wildfire
- BLM directed to reduce cattle and sheep stocking rates on public lands
- BLM directed to increase fees for livestock grazing on public lands
- BLM directed to increase the grazing surcharge fee by twenty-five percent
- Department of Interior directed to provide open access all litigation activities
- The Burns Amendment rescinded by Congress
- Wild Horses and Burros declared native species by Congress
- Redirect funding for the Center for Agriculture and Bioscience
- PEER Rangeland Health Maps
- PEER Analysis Rangeland Health and the BLM Grazing Program
Congress Should Amend the 2025 Dept of Interior Funding Allocation to Require Increased Grazing Fees on Public Lands
Ask Congress to Amend the 2025 Dept of Interior Funding Allocation to Require Increasing Grazing Fees on Public Lands
There are roughly 18,000 grazing leases and permits across 155 million acres of public land in 13 states Bureau of Land Management (BLM) manages around. Estimates indicate that the grazing permits on Public Lands managed by the BLM allow for about 1.5 million cattle.
Direct government expenditures to administer public land grazing constitute an annual net loss to the taxpayers of at least $123 million and more than $500 million when indirect costs are accounted for. As much as 96% of these public dollars are spent to enhance livestock production in direct conflict with legal mandates to restore the health of public lands. For all of this public expense, public lands ranching fails to demonstrate any significant economic contributions to rural economies. Hobby ranchers and corporate entities hold the lion’s share of grazing permits on hundreds of millions of acres of public lands. Westeren Watersheds
- By this Act the Bureau of Land Management is directed to increase the annual grazing fee on public lands. At minimum the Bureau of Land Management is directed to increase the income generated by grazing fees so that the negative impact to the taxpayer is eliminated. It must not cost more annually to operate a grazing program than the program takes in.
- By this act the Taylor Grazing (43 USC 315) is amended to preclude holders of grazing permits to use public lands as collateral for private loans. The Bureau of Land Management shall make the names and contact information for holders of existing loans available to the public.
Public Lands Increasingly Fail to Meet Rangeland health Standards set by the BLM
2014 America’s Heritage: Wild Horse Herds Mismanaged
- BLM precluded from using funds for roundups
- BLM precluded from using funds for new adoptions
- BLM precluded from procurement of forage on the commercial market
- BLM directed to incorporate rewilding for control of wildfire
- BLM directed to reduce cattle and sheep stocking rates on public lands
- BLM directed to increase fees for livestock grazing on public lands
- BLM directed to increase the grazing surcharge fee by twenty-five percent
- Department of Interior directed to provide open access all litigation activities
- The Burns Amendment rescinded by Congress
- Wild Horses and Burros declared native species by Congress
- Redirect funding for the Center for Agriculture and Bioscience
- PEER Rangeland Health Maps
- PEER Analysis Rangeland Health and the BLM Grazing Program