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"Whatever might be said of the arid West, it "ain’t no cow country." That’s what Henry Fonda, playing Wyatt Earp, said of Arizona in John Ford’s My Darling Clementine (1946).
That’s also the bottom line of a book I wrote, The Western Range Revisited: Removing Livestock from Public Lands to Conserve Native Biodiversity. In it, I conclude that where mean annual precipitation is 12 inches or less, livestock should be removed from large tracts of federal lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management......"
http://www.hcn.org/servlets/hcn.Article?article_id=5611
I've become convinced that grazing is a disaster wherever there's 12 inches or less of precipitation.
That’s also the bottom line of a book I wrote, The Western Range Revisited: Removing Livestock from Public Lands to Conserve Native Biodiversity. In it, I conclude that where mean annual precipitation is 12 inches or less, livestock should be removed from large tracts of federal lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management......"
http://www.hcn.org/servlets/hcn.Article?article_id=5611
I've become convinced that grazing is a disaster wherever there's 12 inches or less of precipitation.
