Public lands ranchers joined Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum as the secretaries signed a memorandum of understanding launching their Grazing Action Plan. Leaders and members of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and the Public Lands Council participated in a roundtable discussing cooperative work to address longstanding challenges for federal lands grazing permittees. “By speeding up the permitting process and expanding the use of targeted grazing, the federal government is ensuring that more ranchers will keep ranching and that rangelands will face less depredation and destruction from wildfires and mismanagement,” said Tim Canterbury, President of the Public Lands Council. The Grazing Action Plan focuses on boosting rancher resiliency by assessing vacant allotments, unifying permitting frameworks between agencies, expanding the use of targeted grazing to prevent wildfires, and establishing a rancher liaison program for wildfire incident command centers.
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