Western stockgrowers cheer loosened grazing regs on public land as feds slash rangeland staff

By: Mike Koshmrl

Outlets: Idaho Capital Sun

Published: June 29, 2026

Words: 993

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 1 day ago

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This story was first published by WyoFile on June 25, 2026.

Producers who run livestock on 240 million acres of public land in the American West are largely welcoming a series of reforms to grazing regulations governing their cattle and sheep that have been proposed by the Trump administration.

Changes to the rules are being sought by both the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management, which together administer roughly 23,000 grazing permits …

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