A special issue with six pages on the Taylor Grazing Act, cattle and elk in National Parks and grazing guru Allan Savory.
A grazing guru says he can restore the range by doubling the number of cattle
Allan Savory is the guru of a new kind of livestock grazing, anxious to tell the world that many of the present ‘truths’ about range management are not only wrong and contributing to the economic collapse of ranching, but steering the world to the precipice of environmental disaster. Download entire issue to view this article:…
The Grazing Act brought order to the range
The 1934 Taylor Grazing Act brought order to the Old West: grazing districts, advisory boards, government-subsidized stock ponds, reservoirs and fences, and more. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Cattle are also at home in the National Parks
Livestock grazing has been grandfathered in at twenty National Park units in the West, including Grand Teton in Wyoming. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
The BLM is pressed by two factions
The Bureau took notice of the rebellion, which was an attempt to get the Congress of the courts to transfer BLM land to state ownership. “Even before Watt took over, the Bureau reacted to the Sagebrush Rebels. They cut back on attempts to make changes. I think they believed that if there were a legislative…