Dossier
public lands grazing
Coverage of public lands grazing in the Nexus archive.
- Overhaul of public lands grazing regulations seeks to cut public involvement
The federal government is revising public lands grazing regulations to increase livestock numbers on 155 million acres in the West, despite environmental concerns and criticism that the current system subsidizes wealthy ranchers. The Bureau of Land Management’s proposed changes, the first since 1995, would expand grazing despite expert warnings about overgrazing’s harmful effects on public lands.