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The Taylor Grazing Act of 1934 (TGA, Pub. L. 73–482) is a United States federal law that provides for the regulation of grazing on the public lands (excluding Alaska) to improve rangeland conditions and regulate their use. [1]
Various formulas are used for calculating grazing fees on public lands. Some examples are: For federal rangelands of the United States, the grazing fee "equals the $1.23 base established by the 1966 Western Livestock Grazing Survey multiplied by the result of the Forage Value Index (a derived index of the relative change in the previous year's average monthly rate per head for pasturing cattle ...
The Public Rangelands Improvement Act of 1978 (PRIA) (Pub. L. 95–514) defines the current grazing fee formula and establishes rangeland monitoring and inventory procedures for Bureau of Land Management and United States Forest Service rangelands. The National Grasslands are exempt from PRIA.
Ranchers complain that grazing fees are too high [96] and that grazing regulations are too onerous despite environmentalist complaints that the opposite is true [97] and that promised improvements to grazing on federal lands do not occur. Miners complain of restricted access to claims, or to lands to prospect.
A cattle roundup in Colorado, c.1898. The Western open-range tradition originated from the early practice of unregulated grazing of livestock in the newly acquired western territories of the United States and Canada. These practices were eventually codified in the laws of many Western US states as they developed written statutes. [2]
The United States Grazing Service (USGS) was established in 1934 as part of the Taylor Grazing Act. This act was designed to control the destruction of public land due to overgrazing, which had become a problem across western states like Colorado, Wyoming and Montana. The USGS oversees grazing on these lands and regulates the amount of ...
As the cattle are being branded, castrated, and vaccinated, John tries to figure out how to move his herd to a leased pasture where they can eat, probably the Four Sixes Ranch in Texas.
A range war, also known as range conflict or cattle war, is a type of usually violent conflict, most commonly in the 19th and early 20th centuries in the American West. The subject of these conflicts was control of " open range ", or range land freely used for cattle grazing, or as sheep pasture , which gave these conflicts its name.