The livestock industry is under increasing pressure from land management agencies and environmental groups to often reduce or eliminate livestock from many of our rangelands for various reasons.
Grazing is cited as damaging to soils, water quality, plants, and wildlife.
Few who are critical of domestic livestock grazing understand the ecological realities of grazing on the range. Because our District is primarily rangeland, our major concern and priority is to promote good range conservation. We believe livestock grazing is a legitimate and desirable use of range and forest lands and that this belief should be shared with others. Properly controlled grazing often improves the amount and kind of forage available to wildlife and is completely compatible with a healthy rangeland ecosystem and other land uses. The more examples we can set of this principle, the closer we will come to maximizing production of the land and care for its resources.