I thought they had tired of grass ...
never mind
Funny. All this angst and high paid experts and prognosticating. I wonder when someone will simply get out a pair of wirecutters and render the whole thing moot?
Well, there you go. These issues in the West are much more complicated than most will admit. One of the strangest things for me when I moved to Southern Arizona was that the ranchers were not very conservative down there, sometimes outright liberal, and were quick to use the government for personal gain. I will now don my flame-retardant suit, but my view of this was based on personal observation. I’m not sure if it is the same mindset up there at the Canyons of the Ancients.
“Great Old Broads For Wilderness”??? This is a legitimate group? LOL
Look at anything Alan Savory advocates about grazing. If they do not graze it it will deteriorate. Also, it will become a fire hazard, but of course, when it burns, they will blame it on climate change.
I bet if there were feral horses out there they could stay.
***The land has not been grazed since 2005,***
It is probably grown up real well. A lightning strike and wild fire can clean it up real well like it almost did Mesa Verde a few decades ago.
BLM closes the allotment. It comes under the management of an environmental group. The environmentalist org then leases grass grazing to ranchers. Ranchers sell “grass fed beef”.