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 Stories About: Bureau of Land Management AND land stewardship AND politics AND ranching AND United States AND wilderness AND Wyoming
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Cattle Prod
Why we need to push livestock off public lands |
Debra Donahue, Writers on the Range |
25 Feb 2000 |
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| Whatever might be said of the arid West, it "ain't no cow country." That's what Henry Fonda, playing Wyatt Earp, said of Arizona in John Ford's 1946 film My Darling Clementine. That's also the bottom line of a book I've written, The Western Range Revisited: Removing Livestock from Public Lands to Conserve Native Biodiversity. In it, I conclude that where mean annual precipitati ... |
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| Topics: Bureau of Land Management, land stewardship, politics, ranching, United States, wilderness, Wyoming (all these topics) |
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