Four Corners • Entered by Jennifer Singer on July 14, 2022
CANM Grazing Monitoring
June 1, 2022 – June 30, 2022
Participants and Hours
| Pre Planning hours | |
| Post Admin hours | |
| Activity Hours | 30 |
| Participants | 1 |
| Total Hours | 30 |
Key Issue: Livestock Grazing Management
Activity Type: Advocacy (rallies, lobbying, meeting decision makers, letters/calls/emails)
Key Partners: GOBW office, Steph Wacha at Grand Canyon Trust, Rose Chilcoat
Landscape/area: Canyons of the Ancients National Monument (183129 acres)
Short Description of Activity
Phone meeting with Marietta Eaton former monument manager- She shared CANM background info, history, procedures, and inner workings, and advice for advocating with current management.
Healthy Public Lands Conference Livestream- June 1st and 2nd.
Group Field Trip prep meeting- June 7th.
CANM field trip with BLM and CANM. June 10th
4Corners Broadband Comment Letter on Flodine and Yellow Jacket retire grazing leasing permits.
Reflection/Evaluation
I changed my views on grazing on public lands once I became educated. I have horses and eat locally raised beef and figured cows need to eat somewhere in winter with the rising hay prices. I found out CANM was not the appropriate place despite older leases and cattle grazing on private land in the area. The negative consequences of grazing on public land was thoroughly explained at the the conference. So when we visited Flodine and Yellow Jacket we saw the effects of overgrazing and aridification in an area that hadn’t been grazed in almost 20 years! The devastation of grazing one year would destroy an already damaged moonscape- let alone the 15+ year lease life. CANM has the highest density of cultural resources in the world, mostly underground and unexplored. There’s no reason to let cattle starve in an area where not only is there no grass due to drought and past over-grazing- the effects of cultural resource destruction and worsening aridification are not worth ranchers saving two months of hay money! Shelby has reached out to Ray O’Neil CANM Manager and we will have a relational meeting on July 27th to continue our dialogue and share our local perspectives.
Photos/Uploads
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Photo Captions
1) Flodine lease (proposed)
2) Flodine lease cultural resources- structure, petroglyphs, shrine, and whatever is still buried.