Ask Congress to Amend the 2025 Dept of Interior Funding Allocation to REQUIRE Sustainable Public Lands Management Practices
Current BLM Management Practices, measured by their own date, reveal SIGINIFICANTLY degraded environmental conditions are found on over 36 percent of 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. (PEER.ORG)
On at least 37 million acres, livestock is identified as the major cause of failure. BLM has found that overgrazing is the biggest cause of land health failure across the West by far;
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
China is the primary consumer of beef raised by public lands ranchers.
- By this Act Congress establishes a clear priority to restore the health of public lands. Use of funds provided by this Act must prioritize implementing programs and management practices which adjust the outcomes realized end the continued degradation of ecosystems observed as the result of existing practices. No funds from this act may be used where the outcome constitutes a recognizable degradation of the ecosystems within the scope of the program.
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
Ask Congress to Amend the 2025 Dept of Interior Funding Allocation to REQUIRE Sustainable Public Lands Management Practices
Current BLM Management Practices, measured by their own date, reveal SIGINIFICANTLY degraded environmental conditions are found on over 36 percent of 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. (PEER.ORG)
On at least 37 million acres, livestock is identified as the major cause of failure. BLM has found that overgrazing is the biggest cause of land health failure across the West by far;
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
China is the primary consumer of beef raised by public lands ranchers.
- By this Act Congress establishes a clear priority to restore the health of public lands. Use of funds provided by this Act must prioritize implementing programs and management practices which adjust the outcomes realized end the continued degradation of ecosystems observed as the result of existing practices. No funds from this act may be used where the outcome constitutes a recognizable degradation of the ecosystems within the scope of the program.
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