Some of the responses to this thread are bizarre. We just got back from a 10 day hunting trip in the Big Horn National Forest and indeed, as the OP states, the overgrazing of livestock is very pronounced with drought burned grasses nubbed to the dirt and riparian areas of streams flattened by cows. Cattle were everywhere yet some of you internet wizards want to go off 2-5 year old aerial images to try to make the OP out to be a fraud? The North Fork of the Tongue River was mentioned, cows were all over the place from Burgess Jct to Bald Mtn and that includes walking straight up and down the creek. Fishing was horrible and it's like there's no trout in that water. For all you online experts that haven't been there to see the damage, get out of your mom's basement, cubicle whatever and go the the Big Horns yourselves. Or, keep on being the internet big man and poke holes at the ones who are actually out in the field. I took tons of photos and have turned them in to the forest headquarters. I'd post them here but some of you probably can't handle the truth - - -another thing to keep in mind, for every 1,400 lb cow and her 500 lb calf at side, the rancher is paying a grazing fee of 4.5 cents per day. For every 100 cow-calf pairs, the monthly bill is $135. Yea, it was sure worth it to the many users of the National forest to have the North Tongue blue ribbon fishery trampled down and covered with cow pies for the princely sum of a hundred and thirty five bucks a month
