Here is the reason the ranches need to graze cattle on the BLM land. First, grass grows there. Ranchers have the right to go to the green high country. They pay a fee per cow. They are in a cattle pool from other ranchers. They maintain fences and keep cowboys up there for the summer. But the main point: The ranchers need to grow hay for the winter feed. Ranches are in deep snow during the winter. The cattle come off the BLM and USFS land in October. The ranch bottomland has to be irrigated during the summer to grow the hay. The amount of hayland is small...it has to be flat river bottom. If the cattle were on the ranch in the summer... then two things happen: They eat the winter feed. And they trample the wet soil and destroy the grass and soil grading.
End the BLM Allotments, no ranch. Ranches would be sold for millionaire housing sites.
Ranchers and logging won’t be the only impacted groups. They will also go after hunting and fishing access to those areas to lock out everyone except for the elites. I guess this will be America’s version of the King’s/Queen’s forests.