Tax payers are paying for round ups. The contractors are paid PER head...between $300 and $700 per ...and BLM cost for warehousing our "captured wildlife" averages $5.00 per day. The cost of public lands ranching to American taxpayers is enormous. The current public land grazing fee of $1.35 per month for one cow and her calf is woefully below market value. Direct government expenditures to administer public land grazing constitute an annual net loss to the taxpayers of at least $123 million and more than $500 million when indirect costs are accounted for. As much as 96% of these public dollars are spent to enhance livestock production in direct conflict with legal mandates to restore the health of public lands.
Posted on: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 22:22:02 +0000