Posted inMay 12, 2003: Planting time

Wilderness would have been better for ranchers

Dear HCN, From my kitchen window, I can see the Escalante River and Del LeFevre’s old grazing allotment. Since Del traded his grazing privileges here, parts of the river bottom have begun to recover from many years of overgrazing (HCN, 4/14/03: Change comes slowly to Escalante country). Cattle grazing is still the single most environmentally destructive […]

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