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St George News
February 3, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The federal grazing fee for 2018 will be $1.41 per animal unit month for public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management and $1.41 per head month for lands managed by the U.S. Forest Service. The 2017 public land grazing fee was $1.87. Both measurements, whichÃÂ ...
Hatch Magazine
February 1, 2018
U.S. Forest Service employees in the Cairbou-Targhee National Forest take fire behavior observations from the safety of a meadow on the West side of the ... things that really mattered were that grazing fees were never too pricey and water from the mountains made it to the hay fields as quickly as possible.
Craig Daily Press
February 1, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Federal grazing fee for 2018 will be $1.41 per animal unit month for lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management and the same cost per head month for lands managed by the U.S. Forest Service. The new fee will take effect March 1. This is a decrease of about 25ÃÂ ...
Hatch Magazine
January 31, 2018
U.S. Forest Service employees in the Cairbou-Targhee National Forest take fire behavior observations from the safety of a meadow on the West side of the ... things that really mattered were that grazing fees were never too pricey and water from the mountains made it to the hay fields as quickly as possible.
Elko Daily Free Press
January 30, 2018
The fee for 2018 will be $1.41 per animal unit month on public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service. That's nearly a 25 percent decrease from the 2017 public land grazing fee of $1.87. An AUM is the use of public lands by one cow and her calf, one horse,ÃÂ ...
Steamboat Pilot and Today
January 25, 2018
... grazing allotments under the U.S. Department of the Interior and U.S. Forest Service allotments under the United States Department of Agriculture. A portion of the fees collected on an AUM basis (animal unit month) is returned from the BLM Grazing District to the county where the grazing fees originated.
Seattle Times
January 23, 2018
“He's my idol,” said Chaleen Hill, 38, who runs an operation that rescues unwanted horses, and said that her family gave up its ranch after conflicts with the U.S. Forest Service made running it too difficult. She stood by Bundy and vowed to “stand up beside him with a gun on my horse” if the governmentÃÂ ...
Bend Bulletin
February 10, 2017
The fee for grazing cattle on land managed by the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service will be $1.87 for a cow and her calf in 2017, as announced by the ... Breese added that he grazes his cows on Forest Service land once the winter ends, and considers the cost of grazing fees fair.
Farmington Daily Times
February 1, 2017
This year's fee, which will go into effect March 1, will be $1.87 per animal unit month for BLM-administered lands and $1.87 per head month for lands managed by the U.S. Forest Service, according to a BLM press release. The grazing fee last year was 24 cents higher at $2.11. One animal unit month orÃÂ ...
Bend Bulletin
February 10, 2017
... by the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service will be ... once the winter ends, and considers the cost of grazing fees fair.
Farmington Daily Times
February 1, 2017
BLM announces reduced livestock grazing fees ... month for lands managed by the U.S. Forest Service, according to a BLM press release.
High Country News
June 13, 2016
... squeezing smaller ranchers out of the market, and grazing fees rose. ... of grazing data, from decades of U.S. Forest Service and BLM reports.
High Country News
May 10, 2016
This is how it works: The Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service charge fees for ranchers to run a cow-calf on public land;Â ...
OPB News
January 6, 2016
Federal grazing fees from the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service are also significantly lower than other federal agencies and ...
Los Angeles Times
January 6, 2016
The Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service charge ... Any increase in federal grazing fees can be expected to face stiff ...
The Missoulian
September 1, 2014
Ranchers concerned about grazing fees if state takes over from feds ... The U.S. Forest Service also leases grazing land for the same low price.
Salt Lake Tribune
March 10, 2017
Public land ranchers won't have to worry about their grazing fees skyrocketing or their allotments being sold to developers - if and when Utah gains title to millions of public acres from the U.S.
Twin Falls Times-News
February 28, 2017
The answer to the possible land sale from the U.S. Forest Service is on the front page of the same issue of your newspaper: "Idaho schools short-handed.
Bend Bulletin
February 10, 2017
The fee for grazing cattle on land managed by the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service will be $1.87 for a cow and her calf in 2017, as announced by the bureau on Jan. 31.
Eastern Arizona Courier
February 4, 2017
PHOENIX - The federal grazing fee for 2017 will be $1.87 per animal unit month for public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management and $1.87 per head month for lands managed by the U.S. Forest Service. The 2016 public land-grazing feeÃÂ ...
Freepress Online
February 2, 2017
While the eyes of the nation were on the president's Twitter feed, his immigrant ban and the new Supreme Court nominee, Congress started moving ahead to dismantle environmental regulations, squelch information on climate science and consider sellingÃÂ ...
KENV Channel 10
February 1, 2017
The Federal grazing fee for 2017 will be $1.87 per animal unit month for all users maintaining livestock on public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management and managed by the U.S. Forest Service. The 2016 public land grazing fee was $2.11.
Farmington Daily Times
February 1, 2017
This year's fee, which will go into effect March 1, will be $1.87 per animal unit month for BLM-administered lands and $1.87 per head month for lands managed by the U.S. Forest Service, according to a BLM press release. The grazing fee last year was 24ÃÂ ...
Alamogordo Daily News
January 30, 2017
The trial will force participants to relive the tense moments when federal agents and armed Bundy sympathizers narrowly averted a shootout after the BLM tried to seize the Bundys' cattle over unpaid grazing fees. "Those kinds of protests are scary ...
MERRY JANE
January 26, 2017
The government owns over a quarter of the nation's land, and it is divided among a number of agencies, including the NPS, Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Forest service, and several others. For a long time, Republicans have wanted to take land from ...
The Register-Guard
January 15, 2017
The Tri-State Livestock News, based in South Dakota, recently ran a story describing her dispute with the Bureau of Land Management over grazing fees. The agency administers 245 million acres of public lands and manages livestock grazing on 155 million ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
January 15, 2017
SALEM, Ore. - Leaders of an armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge in rural Oregon were driving to a public meeting a year ago when police shot and killed one of them at a roadblock.
ValueWalk
October 31, 2016
The Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service spent $143.6 million on grazing management in 2014 but collected just $18.5 million in grazing fees - a loss of $125 million. And in our own study at PERC, we found that the feds lost about 90 ...
Casper Star-Tribune Online
October 21, 2016
The 350-page report looked at land under the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service. The Legislature did not include national parks or military installations in the study.
Field and Stream
August 18, 2016
In the 1950s, as restoration efforts on BLM and U.S. Forest Service public lands began to improve grazing conditions and reestablish cutover forests, the movement to take these lands began to build.
The Spokesman Review (registration) (blog)
August 3, 2016
Im pretty sure he will make a nice profit after he pays his next to nothing grazing fees and is reimbursed for his four cows as well.
Jackson Hole News&Guide
August 3, 2016
In FY 2012 the U.S. Forest Service spent $55 million in Wyoming just on fire suppression. Wyoming taxpayers would have to bear .... The BLM gets millions in grazing fees to offset their costs, as Wyoming can also do. The Forest Service also collects ...
Citizens Voice
July 18, 2016
According to the nonpartisan watchdog agency, the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management have failed to follow their own regulations by not documenting, much less penalizing, unauthorized grazing on federal public lands.
snopes.com
July 16, 2016
The National Park Service only accounts for 12% of the land held by the federal government - agencies such as the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the U.S. Forest Service, and the Fish and Wildlife Service, for example, also oversee large areas of ...
Las Vegas Review-Journal
May 6, 2016
The issue has flared up in controversies for decades. In 2000, hundreds of protesters from across the West and the nation, armed with picks and shovels, turned out to rebuild a washed-out road in a national forest along the Nevada-Idaho border after ...
Ag Journal
March 10, 2016
Since retiring from the State Land Board, Rave has worked as a consultant for farmers and ranchers in Colorado, particularly in matters associated with the State Land Board, BLM and the U.S. Forest Service. Toward the end of her career with the State ...
Huffington Post
March 10, 2016
Certain ranchers in Utah and other Western states claim that BLM (Bureau of Land Management) and USFS (US Forest Service) are interfering with their rights to use public lands for grazing their livestock.
Idaho Mountain Express and Guide
March 9, 2016
Federal court filings allege that Bundy ignored court orders to pay federal public-land grazing fees in 1993, 1998, 1999 and 2012.
Bonners Ferry Herald
March 7, 2016
Authorities maintained that Bundy had trespassed on federal land over a 20-year period by refusing to obtain permits or pay grazing fees for his cattle. Bundy and his sons are accused of organizing the standoff by making false accusations against ...
Bonner County Daily Bee
March 5, 2016
Authorities maintained that Bundy had trespassed on federal land over a 20-year period by refusing to obtain permits or pay grazing fees for his cattle. Bundy and his sons are accused of organizing the standoff by making false accusations against ...
Standard-Examiner
February 5, 2016
Cattle graze around Grouse Creek in far northwest corner of Utah on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015. All of the families with students at Grouse Creek School are somehow connected to the cattle ranching economy.
OB Rag
February 2, 2016
It could be good because this story has finally forced public lands ranching, or "welfare ranching," and the policies of federal agencies like the Bureau of Land Management and US Forest Service into the public's consciousness. On the other hand, there ...
Philly.com
February 2, 2016
Pipe bombs went off in U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management offices between 1995 and 1996. Then, as the Bundys resumed their illegal practice of grazing their cattle on federal land, they racked up $1 million in unpaid federal grazing fees.
OregonLive.com
February 1, 2016
The Bundy patriarch, who led a standoff at his own ranch in 2014 with federal authorities over cattle grazing fees, requested removal of all federal and state police from Harney County and a county sheriff guard post at the refuge entrance road ...
Christian Science Monitor
January 30, 2016
A public backlash against the Malheur occupiers also suggests American sympathy for those who work for the US Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the US Fish and Wildlife Department. .... After all, the US government stood down from the ...
Daily Herald
January 28, 2016
The U.S. Forest Service started regulating its rangeland by 1907 after overgrazing by sheep and cattle became a problem. More recent ... Environmental groups say federal grazing fees are kept artificially low, resulting in a subsidy for ranchers. Why ...
Silver City Daily Press and Independent
January 27, 2016
Rancher Adrian Courtney Sewell publicly voiced his support at an event in Burns, Ore., last week, and renounced his contract with the U.S. Forest Service. The Oregon refuge was under occupation by a group of armed ranchers and ... The leaders of the ...
NPR
January 27, 2016
In the 1990s, bombs were placed on U.S. Forest Service property and the BLM's state headquarters in Reno. The case against Bundy and his unpaid grazing fees goes back some 20 years, too. Land managers in the late 1990s also planned to round up someÃÂ ...
FOX13 Memphis
January 23, 2016
(AP) - A rancher from New Mexico renounced his U.S. Forest Service grazing contract at an event held by an armed group occupying a national wildlife refuge in Oregon to protest federal land use policies.
OregonLive.com
January 23, 2016
Free to graze cattle - as family patriarch Cliven Bundy long has on 96,000 acres in Nevada - and never pay the Bureau of Land Management a dime in those heavily subsidized federal grazing fees. Free to ignore federal court orders and steer bulldozers ...
