Andy Kerr

Conservationist, Writer, Analyst, Operative, Agitator, Strategist, Tactitian, Schmoozer, Raconteur

National Agriculture Statistics Service

The High Cost of Cheap Grazing

May 26, 2017 in Congress, Bureau of Land Management, Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, National Forest System, Presidents

It costs more to feed a domestic housecat than to graze domestic livestock on federal public lands.

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A fortnightly exposition on some aspect of federal or state public lands in the United States. Some posts goes rather deep and serve as a useful (I hope) backgrounders on particular public land areas, matters or issues. Other fortnights, you’ll find a topical piece addressing a public lands controversy of the moment. This blog not only defends, but also extols, public lands.

Andy Kerr of The Larch Company (www.andykerr.net) splits his time between Ashland, OR and Hancock, ME. He has been significantly involved in the enactment of more than 25 pieces of federal and state legislation and in copious litigation pertaining to public lands. Dedicated to the conservation and restoration of nature, The Larch Company is a non-membership for-profit organization that represents species that cannot talk and humans not yet born. A deciduous conifer, the western larch has a contrary nature.

If you wish to contact me, I will probably be glad you did.