• Agenda

• Order the Proceedings

• Press

  • Coalition proposes buying up grazing permits

  • Conservation coalition wants U.S. to buy out grazing permits

  • Not every rancher is a bad rancher

    • Don't demonize defenders of public land

  • Livestock industry faces uncertainty

  • Groups endorse plan to end public lands grazing: letters have been mailed to the approximately 25,000 grazing permittees to introduce them to the buyout proposal and ask for their support. (correction: the letters were not mailed until April 9, 2002)

    • Poll: Do you support the proposed grazing permit buyout?

  • Environmentalists Propose Grazing Lease Buyout 

    • NPLGC's Letter to Public Lands Permittees & Lessees

    • Local ranchers battle to keep California lamb on the table (Ed. note: This piece is just one of many illustrations of how the industry is in general decline. Things in the cattle industry are no better than in the sheep industry, and public lands ranchers are at the bottom of the heap due to their reliance on what are generally the driest, most fragile, and most hotly contested lands in the West.)

• Other

  • Welfare Ranching: The Subsidized Destruction of the American West (publisher now accepting orders)

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