The case involves a new, made-to-order interpretation of the grazing rules designed to limit grazing permits to production-oriented livestock, precluding the use of grazing allotments for conservation purposes, such as wild horse preserves.
If conservation herds were illegal, as the ranchers and their allies claim, the folks at Wild Horse Refuge would have been told to keep their animals on their own property, Mustang Monument never would have been proposed and American Prairie’s bison restoration project would have been dead on arrival.
Last month a federal judge ruled that the Taylor Grazing Act does not require a grazing operation to focus exclusively on production and ignore conservation or restoration.
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