You have to familiarize yourself with ranching that’s done in the NW. The leasing of summer grazing has been going on for many many years and it’s the only thing that has allowed the ranchers to stay in business. The enviros are using anything they can to get not only the rancher off the land but everyone, their arguments for the most part are bs.
The leasing of public lands has been going on for decades. The problem we see now is that to the environmentalists 'public lands' means nobody can use them.
I’m not ignorant of the past practices of grazing on Federal lands in the NW.
It used to be almost all the West had open grazing, but that disappeared. So will grazing on Federal lands.
My reason for making the comments I have is that ranchers will have to change.