Big Game Hunting > Wolves
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bearhunter99:
--- Quote from: Rainier10 on July 30, 2024, 08:37:19 AM ---WSU assessed our land and recommended a ten year break at least from grazing. The cattle had been brought in too early and left too long for multiple years by the rancher. Natural grass had been destroyed, weeds and sage brush had taken over creating more fuel for a fire than the natural grass.
Just like hunting it needs to regulated to have a sustainable habitat. Over hunting and overgrazing both are detrimental to the habitat in my opinion.
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This! Grazing can be a great tool for the habitat and environment as long as it is not over grazed. Once it is over grazed, even for one year, it takes many years to bring it back especially in the high desert soil environment.
ducks4days:
Im a huge fan of grazing leases, mostly because they provide a $ justification for keeping public lands public.
Wolves predating livestock on private land should be culled. That shouldnt extend to public grazing leases, depredation risk should be considered part of the package that makes the grazing leases so incredibly cheap.
Feathernfurr:
At $1.35 per animal unit per month I just don’t see the true value outweighing the negative impacts. Especially when you consider they’re really the only end user that gets to profit off of public land. I’d gladly pay the monthly fees equivalent to the allotments fees in my elk spots to keep cattle off of them. The damage I’ve seen from cattle (don’t get me started on off road vehicles) will last generations.
I can respect cattle farmers, and I can respect the benefits of proper grazing and rotations. But I’m not going to weep for them when I’ve seen the damage they’ve done in places that are important to me. I like a picture of a public landscape with abundant wildlife that a man can be self reliant on. Not a public landscape riddled with not native livestock with the mentality of “we’ll feed you”.
GOcougsHunter:
I also think there are two sides of this coin. My duck hunting spot on state managed land was allowed to be overgrazed, literally everything gone up to and into the water line of the lakes. We used to set up our blind in the cattails or just into the shore brush. Everything was consumed. Took almost 5 years for that to grow back. I also enjoy my $3 hamburgers, so my opinion is really not worth squat.
2MANY:
Location: West Wa
Of course it is.
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