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To: average joe who wrote (92485)	1/4/2005 11:27:03 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

My understanding is that the federal government raised the fees to graze cattle and the ranchers balked. Is that incorrect? On the website I cited, there are photos of environmental degradation caused by grazing. Are they inaccurate? It seems like the land existed with grass growing on it long before the cattle came. Wild fires are normal and a natural correction. It doesn't seem reasonable to assert that cattle grazing MUST occur to protect the land, but this is an issue I am not that familiar with. Maybe we need a lot more buffalo? I agree that eating range-raised beef is better than eating crops poisoned by Monsanto terminator technology. I am just wishing for a world in which neither of these things exist.

To: average joe who wrote (92485)	1/4/2005 11:41:14 AM
From: teevee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

If you don't believe in grazing grass lands who will keep the grass cut? Teams of children from the inner cities armed with weed wackers? One of the greatest North American environmental disasters in the 20th century was the creation of Grasslands National Park in Saskatchewan. Once the ranchers were bought out and the cattle removed, there was no grazing to keep the grass down. Without fencing and replacement of the cattle by bison or the re introduction of cattle, the continued degradation of the grasslands and threat of fires looms. The so called government employed grasslands ecology experts from the big city have destroyed an ecosystem.