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Great
Basin Restoration
Congress may consider legislation and
other mechanisms to restore Sagebrush Sea infested with weeds and
devastated by wildfire in recent years. |
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Owyhee
Initiative Implementation Act
Congress is considering public lands
legislation that would designate Wilderness and Wild and Scenic Rivers
in the Owyhee Country in Idaho. But the proposd bill may do more harm
than good. |
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Bureau
of Land Management Grazing Permit-Loans
For at least 75 years, federal grazing
permittees, with the aid of lending institutions and the tacit complicity
of the federal government, have collateralized their publicly owned
grazing permits along with their ranches and livestock to finance
their private grazing operations on public lands. |
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Federal
Grazing Fees
Grazing fees paid by public lands ranchers
do not begin to cover the cost of livestock grazing on Bureau of Land
Management and Forest Service lands. |
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Bureau
of Land Management Vegetation Management Plan
The Bureau of Land Management is developing
a new and poorly conceived invasive species/"vegetation management"
plan to spray invasive weeds ("noxious weed control"), log
trees and chain shrubs ("fuels reduction") across agency
lands in seventeen western states. |