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Grazing of Federal Public Lands: An Overview of the Institutional Landscape

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Type: Conference Paper
Author: Hayes, James
Conference: Institutional Analysis and Development Mini-Conference and TransCoop Meeting
Location: Bloomington, Indiana
Conf. Date: December
Date: 2002
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/9314
Sector: Grazing
Land Tenure & Use
Region: North America
Subject(s): livestock
grazing--policy
governance and politics
institutional analysis
polycentricity
incentives
land tenure and use
Abstract: "Livestock grazing in the western United States has been shown to have great ecological and economic costs. Ranching on federal rangelands produces about 2% of the nations livestock and supports about 3% of the nations ranchers. Yet this small group accrues an annual national subsidy amounting to more than their total economic production, while degrading the environmental quality and health of the land. Although much of the western rangeland is federally owned, the management of it has remained, effectively, in private hands. This de facto private control, combined with a large public subsidy, have led to perverse incentives for land management decisions. Western ranchers have a history of abusing public lands and shirking responsibility for their ecological health. They have repeatedly demanded autonomy from the federal government, yet have refused to take administrative responsibility for the land when it has been offered to them. This situation merits serious attention because grazing is a widespread and pervasive land-use on most publicly owned federal lands."

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