1-3 FB Endless Rules

 The U.S. beef industry has the common goals of raising healthy beef in an environment free of overly burdensome government interference and to pass down successful operations and healthy natural resources to future generations. These goals are threatened by the growing number of laws and regulations that govern what they do. In the West, where the federal government owns roughly half the land mass, more than 22,000 ranchers have the challenge of running their operations, in part, on federal land.  There’s a lot of cost and uncertainty with the federal land management agencies. They have high environmental standards and paperwork obligations to live up to—more, in fact, than they are able to handle. Here is Dustin Van Liew, Public Lands Council (PLC) executive director and National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) director of federal lands talking about environmental agency backlogs . “The grazing rider which allows the Department of Agriculture and Department of the Interior, those secretaries to renew grazing permits in light of the NEPA  backlog so as not to interrupt grazing on those permits while the agencies try to catch up with their NEPA  backlog. Environmental activists groups never miss a chance litigate especially when grazing permits are concerned. Those stuck in the middle of backlogs can thank environmental lawyers who get paid fat checks to litigate for the sake of litigation.