“Not only is BLM looking away from the problem, but it appears that it does not want the public to know the scope of the problem either,”
Over 750 cows graze Monroe Mountain from June through October nipping at Aspen shoots, shrubs and grasses, meandering through stands that no longer show growth and a healthy environment.In a recent, Bureau of Land Management Director Tracy Stone-Manning claims her agency has a renewed focus on land health.
The Bureau of Land Management’s failure to manage grazing to achieve healthy lands is a national scandal. The results of the Bureau’s negligence in ensuring land health standards are met include massive infestations of flammable cheatgrass, degraded trout and salmon streams, destroyed plant communities, decimated biological soil crusts and declining sage grouse populations.analysis
by Western Watersheds Project shows more than half of all Bureau grazing allotments — 54% — are being renewed under a special congressional loophole allowing agencies to skip environmental assessments and rubberstamp the leases to continue up to 10 more years without any changes. Worse, on lands with sensitive resources, or with conflicts between livestock and other land uses, you might think the agency would be extra-careful. Instead, they use the congressional loophole even more often in cases where serious conflicts exist and where they know land health standards are not being met.
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