The executive director of the Public Lands Council said earlier this week that public-lands ranching should be viewed as “a land-management tool to reduce fine fuels that lead to intense wildfires, as well as a tool to cultivate native grasses and reduce invasive species,” according to a report by Capital Press of Salem, OR.
She also claimed that “herd management areas are overstocked” and stakeholders in the west are very interested in additional funding for the WHB program.