Cascade Volcanoes • Entered by Laurie Kerr on February 17, 2023
Grazing on Public Lands Webinar
February 15, 2023
Participants and Hours
| Pre Planning hours | |
| Post Admin hours | |
| Activity Hours | 1 |
| Participants | 3 |
| Total Hours | 3 |
Key Issue: Public Lands Health & Protection
Activity Type: Education & Outreach (tabling, films & lectures, regional B-walks/works)
Key Partners: Western Watersheds
Measurable Outcomes
Outcome 1: Event Attendees (3 people)
Short Description of Activity
Grazing Webinar Glo Call
Reflection/Evaluation
Three Cascade Volcanoes Broads attended the Grazing call. Western Washington is not a place for a major advocacy issue, but if it was, we would need to advocate for new grazing standards and for Voluntary Permit Retirement Act. Also reform needs to happen to ensure that assessments are completed for mapping and rangeland health. The assessments are not being done because of the huge amounts of backlog of both permitting and monitoring.
In submitting comments, consider how grazing impacts the threatened and endangered species. Use sageCon Landscape planning tool. Also read the Resource management plan for the area. These are the standards that grazing companies are supposed to follow. There are stronger standards for threatened and endangered species ie. sageground approved management plan assessments (ARMPA).
Here are a few good resources: USFS.gov/sopa.php.forests
Wilderness Watch Grazing report
BLM National NEPA Register
“Rewilding Hart Mountain” film
Also sign up for BLM, IP list
This was my first introduction to the issue of grazing and it was a real awareness of the scope of the problem for me as over 70% of public lands in Western US allow grazing.