Following a settlement with conservation groups, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) must revisit the impacts of livestock grazing on the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area in southeastern Arizona.
The settlement follows litigation filed in April 2020 over a 2019 resource management plan to allow livestock grazing on the conservation area.
“The Bureau needs to reconsider its priorities and truly ‘conserve, protect, and enhance’ the area, as it is directed to do by law,” said Greta Anderson, deputy director of Western Watersheds Project. “Continued livestock use is incompatible with that direction.”
