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Grazing on Public Lands - Conservation Policies - Sierra Club (891 words) |
 | The primary goal of this Sierra Club federal public lands grazing policy is to protect and restore native biodiversity and achieve functional and self-sustaining ecosystems. |
| Recognizing that changes to grazing policy will likely take a number of years to accomplish and that some areas of the public lands are more imminently threatened by destructive grazing practices than others, the Sierra Club has prioritized our efforts. |
| Grazing is causing degradation of habitat necessary for threatened, endangered or sensitive native plant and animal species. |
| Grazing-Pros-Con (1983 words) |
| On the other hand, ranchers defend their right to continue to graze federal lands on the basis of national meat demands, priority of use, moral principle, and the personal hardship that would result from the reduction or elimination of grazing. |
| Grazing is a form of profit for the rancher, but if the land is ruined then it can no longer be used in the future and the rancher will lose profits. |
| One view is that grazing on federally owned land is defeating the purpose of setting aside land to be preserved from the harmful effects of human development. |
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