The Departments of Agriculture and Interior have recently announced plans to formalize collaboration between the two agencies when it comes to grazing on public lands. Shelby Hagenauer, senior director of government affairs at AFBF, shared context in Newsline about the plan, which were announced via a memorandum of understanding…
She said public lands grazing is a valuable partnership between ranchers and federal agencies to manage millions of acres of Western lands…
Hagenauer said the next step for farmers and ranchers is to look out for updated grazing regulations that are currently going through the federal review process…
“They’re focused on making vacant allotments available for use, more efficient National Environmental Policy Act permitting processes, having agency staff spend part of their training on actual ranches to better understand the daily lives of ranchers,” Hagenauer said. Public lands grazing is a valuable partnership between ranchers and federal agencies to manage millions of acres of Western lands.
