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RangeNet 2001 - A Grazing
Odyssey
National Public Lands
Grazing Campaigns
November 10 & 11, 2001
Arizona State University
Tempe (Phoenix), Arizona
In the current Administration, the environmental community
is facing countless obstacles with anticipate setbacks in progressive laws:
Endangered Species Act, Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, and rangelands which
will continue to be devastated by livestock grazing.
Registration (Saturday: 8:00 am)
Session 1 (Saturday 8:30 am - 12 noon) - Ecological
Impacts of Public Lands Grazing
To understand the reasoning behind the movement to get cattle off our public
lands you must first look closely at the one hundred plus years of ecological
degradation and realize that in the arid west recovery will be slow requiring
decades and up to several centuries to assure the return of native vegetation
and to bring back the disappearing wildlife.
Session 2 (Saturday 1:30 - 5:00 pm) - Grazing Activism
at the Local Level: Educating the Public
Grazing activism starts at the local level. It ain't easy. It's frustrating.
But if done right it is most rewarding. This session discusses the language of
agency Double Speak plus approaches for researching your response to requests
for input.
Session 3 (Sunday 8:30 am - 12 noon) - National Public
Lands Grazing Campaigns
Correcting grazing problems on our public lands doesn't stop at the local
level. We must mount an arduous campaign to make our Senators and
Congressmen/women back in Washington understand the plight that archaic laws are
continually damaging our true Western heritage - healthy functioning native
ecosystems.
For more information visit these WEB
sites
RangeNet: www.rangenet.org
Western Watersheds Project: www.westernwatersheds.org
Prescott National Forest Friends: www.pnff.org
Conference Organizer: jhpowers@commspeed.net
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