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Trustee Archive
The Forrest Service and the Bureau of Land Management administer our public lands grazing program. This program allows 3% of our nation's cattle, horses, goats and sheep to graze on public lands including our national parks. This arrangement mostly benefits large commercial ranching operations, or about 2% of all our ranchers. Fees collected from these ranchers do not cover the cost of administering the grazing program. Not counting the damage done to ecosystems, the annual cost to taxpayers of this program is estimated to be about $100 million. Expired grazing permits are usually renewed automatically without financial or environmental review. Grazing opponents cite substantial environmental damage caused by grazing, saying low fees encourage misuse.
Proposed Legislation: Reintroduction of H.R.5737 - Voluntary Grazing Permit Retirement Act (116th Congress 2019-2020)
Prospective Sponsor: Rep. Derek Kilmer (WA) |
- I oppose reforming current federal lands grazing policy and wish to donate resources to the campaign committee of Speaker Kevin McCarthy (CA).
- I support expanding the authorization of voluntary Federal grazing permit retirement, providing increased flexibility for Federal grazing permittees, promoting the equitable resolution or avoidance of conflicts, and wish to donate resources to the campaign committee of Rep. Derek Kilmer (WA) and/or to an advocate group currently working with this issue.
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I support expanding the authorization of voluntary Federal grazing permit retirement, providing increased flexibility for Federal grazing permittees, promoting the equitable resolution or avoidance of conflicts, and wish to donate resources to the campaign committee of Rep. Derek Kilmer (WA) and/or to an advocate group currently working with this issue.
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- Representative
If elected as a trustee, the campaign committee of Rep. Derek Kilmer (WA) will be unconditionally awarded the funds pledged to this issue along with a letter requesting him to favorably consider either reintroducing H.R.5737 - Voluntary Grazing Permit Retirement Act (116th Congress 2019-2020), or a similar version thereof.
- Western Watersheds Project
If elected as a trustee, Western Watersheds Project will be awarded the funds pledged to this issue along with a letter requesting these funds be used to advocate for reducing or eliminating livestock grazing on federal lands.
The mission of Western Watersheds Project is to protect and restore western watersheds and wildlife through education, public policy initiatives, and legal advocacy. Western Watersheds Project is a nonprofit environmental conservation group with 1,500 members founded in 1993 and has field offices in Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Arizona, Utah, Nevada and California. WWP works to influence and improve public lands management throughout the West with a primary focus on the negative impacts of livestock grazing on 250 million acres of western public lands, including harm to ecological, biological, cultural, historic, archeological, scenic resources, wilderness values, roadless areas, Wilderness Study Areas and designated Wilderness.
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- No trustee votes received.
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| Poll Opening Date |
January 16, 2023 |
| Poll Closing Date |
January 22, 2023 |
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