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viagra online (Feb. 16, 2012) – The Obama Administration proposal to increase public land grazing fees from the regulatory minimum will do little to match the administrative costs of the program according to the Colorado-based, Cloud Foundation (TCF). The fee would increase by $1.00 per month for a cow/calf pair or five head of sheep. TCF has long advocated for a dramatic increase in the fees for "welfare" livestock ranching on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Forest Service lands.viagra online states Ginger Kathrens, Executive Director of The Cloud Foundation. viagra online
Livestock grazing covers over two-thirds of BLM maintained land while wild horses occupy only 11% of these lands and are outnumbered by cattle and sheep by as much as 100 to 1. The grazing program costs $144 million annually to administer while netting only $21 million per year, leaving taxpayers to foot a yearly $123 million bill.
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BLM is currently conducting six Rapid Ecoregional Assessment (REAs) studies across the West, but eliminated livestock grazing from scientific evaluation due to "anxiety from 'stakeholders,' fear of litigation, and lack of available data on grazing impacts" according to Public Employees for Environment Responsibility (PEER), a government watchdog group representing the public interest.
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It is estimated that 2-3 million head of livestock graze on public lands, resulting in less than 3-4% of the nation's total beef output. Public lands livestock permittees currently pay $1.35 per AUM (a cow/calf pair or five sheep per month) to graze on public lands—the regulatory minimum according to standards set by the Public Rangelands Improvement Act (PRIA).
In the early 1990's, former President Clinton's Secretary of the Interior, Bruce Babbitt, attempted to raise public land grazing fee but was met by staunch opposition from the livestock producers and the Administration withdrew the increase.
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- The Cloud Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to the preservation and protection of wild horses and burros on our Western public lands with a focus on protecting Cloud's herd in the Pryor Mountains of Montana.