A battle is taking place over who
controls our publicly owned land – livestock ranchers or
the public. Every blade of grass eaten by wildlife is viewed
by ranchers as stolen from the mouths of their livestock. Read about legislative
and agency challenges
The Yellowstone Ecosystem
Yellowstone
National Park and the National Elk Refuge prohibit livestock
grazing. Excluding these two areas, most of the remaining
publicly owned land and nearly all of the privately owned
land in Yellowstone is available for livestock production.
More cattle graze the public’s land in Yellowstone than
deer, elk, bison, bighorn sheep, moose, pronghorn, and mountain
goats combined. Details and a
free poster!
The Valles Caldera Preserve
The federal law that created the Valles Caldera Preserve in 2000 requires the Valles Caldera Trust to protect the unique
natural values of the 98,000 acre Preserve in the heart
of New Mexico's Jemez Mountains, while becoming
financially self-supporting by 2015. Despite an extensive grazing program, an independent government report says the Trust is not
making adequate progress.
Read more..
Grand Staircase-Escalante National
Monument
Forest
Guardians joined Grand Canyon Trust, Great Old Broads, Southern
Utah Wilderness Alliance, NRDC, and The Wilderness Society
to intervene in a case on the side of the U.S. Government
to prevent grazing in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National
Monument. This action is necessary because a group led by
County Commissioners from Utah’s Kane and Garfield Counties
sued Gale Norton and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM),
challenging the closure of all or part of eleven grazing
allotments within the Monument.
For specific questions about our efforts to reduce grazing on public
lands,
contact Melissa Hailey,
Grazing Reform program director.
Yellowstone
National Park and the National Elk Refuge prohibit livestock
grazing. Excluding these two areas, most of the remaining
publicly owned land and nearly all of the privately owned
land in Yellowstone is available for livestock production.
More cattle graze the public’s land in Yellowstone than
deer, elk, bison, bighorn sheep, moose, pronghorn, and mountain
goats combined. 
The federal law that created the Valles Caldera Preserve in 2000 requires the Valles Caldera Trust to protect the unique
natural values of the 98,000 acre Preserve in the heart
of New Mexico's Jemez Mountains, while becoming
financially self-supporting by 2015. Despite an extensive grazing program, an independent government report says the Trust is not
making adequate progress.
Forest
Guardians joined Grand Canyon Trust, Great Old Broads, Southern
Utah Wilderness Alliance, NRDC, and The Wilderness Society
to intervene in a case on the side of the U.S. Government
to prevent grazing in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National
Monument. This action is necessary because a group led by
County Commissioners from Utah’s Kane and Garfield Counties
sued Gale Norton and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM),
challenging the closure of all or part of eleven grazing
allotments within the Monument. 
