LARAMIE, Wyo. – The public lands management agencies announced the grazing fee for federal allotments today, which the federal government has decreased to a mere $1.87 per cow and her calf (or 5 sheep) per month, known as an Animal Unit Month, or AUM.
“This has got to be the cheapest all-you-can-eat buffet deal in the […]
Continue Reading →Once again, it’s $1.35/AUM — just a token fee-
Like last year, the USFS and the BLM have announced that the 2013 grazing will a mere $1.35 per animal unit month (AUM).
In a news release, the agencies wrote: “An AUM or HM – treated as equivalent measures for fee purposes – is the […]
Obama willing to waste billions of dollars to destroy the natural environment, less willing to spend a pittance to conserve it
In a recent email from Vice President Joe Biden, the White House chose, among the umpteen thousand examples of government waste, a federally funded Desert Tortoise website as its whipping-boy to highlight what it […]
Continue Reading →Fee is only $1.35 to graze a calf cow pair for a month.
Obama Administration Refuses to Reform Public-lands Grazing Fee
For immediate release – January 18, 2011
Contacts: Greta Anderson, Western Watersheds Project, 520.623.1878
Mark Salvo, WildEarth Guardians, 503.757.4221
Taylor McKinnon, Center for Biological Diversity, 928.310.6713
Brent Fenty, Oregon […]
These are doubly unjust compared to what the rest of us pay-
These data are from the High Country News blog, Goat. Cows vs. RATs. Jodi Peterson
Continue Reading →Grazing formula again dictates $1.35 a month to graze a cow and a calf or 5 sheep-
A formula to set federal grazing fees designed to partially insulate grazers of federal land from the market became law in 1976. It was supposed to go up and down according to livestock prices and costs of doing […]
Continue Reading →The Subsidized Destruction of the American West Continues. $1.35 per AUM
The Federal grazing fee for 2009 will be $1.35 per animal unit month (AUM) for public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management and $1.35 per head month (HM) for lands managed by the Forest Service. The grazing fee for 2009 is the […]
Continue Reading →New on Feb. 8. Rocky Barker. Low federal grazing fees lie at heart of calls for reform. Idaho Statesman.
Feb. 6. This news release came from the Arizona Office of the Western Watersheds Project. The subsidy to cattle and sheep growers on our public lands just keeps getting worse. $1.35 an AUM is the […]
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