Source: Therevelator.org Ranchers pay just $1.35 a month to graze cattle on public lands and national forests. You couldn’t feed a cat or dog for 10 times that amount. by Dipika Kadaba and John R. Platt What animal could survive on $1.35 worth of food a month? Certainly not […]
Story by James McWilliams ~co-founder of The Daily Pitchfork ~ as published on The Pacific Standard “Anytime a self-actualized journalist turns an inquisitive eye to the plight of our nation’s wild horses and burros it is time to celebrate as they are the ones who cannot speak for […]
SOURCE: The Daily Pitchfork Photography: Bryce Gray BLM and USFS-reported grazing stats reveal the extent of private livestock production on millions of acres of overgrazed western public range and forest land, challenging rancher claims that wild horses and burros are to blame. by Vickery Eckhoff A side-by-side analysis of […]
by Vickery Eckhoff as published in The Daily Pitchfork A newly published study offers photographic proof of what ranchers have long denied: the extent to which livestock grazing damages public lands. (Part III of a series on ranchers in the media) Livestock have been severely depleting public rangelands for decades. […]
SOURCE: The Daily Pitchfork by Vickery Eckhoff The US livestock industry has enormous economic and political clout. But news reports consistently highlight a small segment of it — ranchers grazing livestock on federally-managed western grasslands — as news sources, granting them undue influence on policy issues in which […]
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