Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) recently introduced the State Grazing Management Authority Act, which would allow states to manage grazing programs on federal allotments.
“While many states have been able to streamline their grazing processes and work on the state and local level to make their lands more productive, grazers in public lands states are instead forced to navigate layers of bureaucracy and regulation from federal agencies like the Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service, which are far removed and often unresponsive to their needs,” read a press release from Lee. “These inefficient federal grazing requirements neither increase grazers’ interest in using federal lands, nor result in better land management,” Lee said.
The bill would allow states to enter into cooperative agreements with federal agencies to manage federal grazing allotments.
