Judge rules nearly 1 million acres off limits to grazing

[NVMojo]

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is telling ranchers to remove thousands of head of cattle from nearly a million acres of public land in southern Idaho after a federal judge found the agency addressed environmental impacts from grazing in a "patchwork-quilt manner."

"We are working with ranchers to discuss how to implement the judge's order, which necessitates the removal of the livestock," Cheryle Zwang, Idaho BLM spokeswoman, said Wednesday. "We don't know if it's going to be under appeal, but we are trying to comply with the order."

U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill ruled last week in favor of conservationists who had sued BLM, arguing the agency violated federal regulations when it authorized increased grazing in the Jarbidge Resource Area, an expanse of rangeland southwest of Twin Falls that stretches to the state's southern border with Nevada.

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[XanaDUer]

1. I hope this judge will be okay

freep types get violent over this type of thing.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. you mean this evil activist judge

who dares read the statute he is supposed to enforce?
HOW DARE HE?

[XanaDUer]

3. Didn't you get the memo?

"Activist" judges are the ones who make librul decisions about things that RWers don't like.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. damnation. I must have missed it.

Let's see if I can find the quote from Animal Farm. Orwell described it pretty well.

[liberal N proud]

4. He is probably saving it for the Oil Companies.

Or logging industry

[blindpig]

6. let's see, 800,000 acres, 11 permit holders...........

leased at below market rate. Talk about welfare! Free range cattle on government land accounts for about 3% of our beef supply. I wonder how many of those permit holders are mom & pop operations. While I wouldn't want to see those folks bankrupted neither should they be rewarded for their disregard for the land. Screw the corporate holders.

A lot of that land is unsuitable for sustainable cattle grazing. Buffalo are much easier on the land, give it back to them and harvest a sustainable surplus. Have Native Americans manage the buffalo. It would only be right.

[dcfirefighter]

7. The worst sort of welfare

I don't care if it's mom & pop. Manage it sustainably, and lease it out in small parcels at auction (full market rate). Put the income to the general revenue, and reduce our deficit.

[jeffreyi]

8. Stunning

this ruling is quite amazing, in its scope and implications. One of the permittees is Simplot company, anything but a ma-and-pa-and-younguns, Simplot is run by one guy (J. R. Simplot, now in his 90's); they are a huge company w/ vast holdings in things like potato processing & farms and ranches in Idaho and neighboring states. What a slam of the BLM.