Western Watersheds Project and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) each recently released analyses regarding the Bureau of Land Management’s environmental oversight of its livestock grazing program on 155 million acres of western public lands.
We compiled the agency’s own data on permit and lease renewals and their compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which requires a public process, a land health evaluation and an environmental analysis for every 10-year authorization.
Spoiler alert: the agency is actively ducking its supervisory responsibilities on the livestock grazing leases where environmental conflicts are most severe.
