>>251328>I live in AZ and can't see how removing cattle would be a good thing. while ranchers are fucking assholes that think they own the place just because they have a fucking grazing lease, they don't hurt anything.The hell they don't. Cattle raze natural vegetation to the ground, destroying delicate ecosystems in the process as well as causing immense damage to riparian ecosystems - to say nothing of the water diverted from streams in already-arid environs to irrigate pasture and grow alfalfa.
>they put in windmills and water tanks, on their own dime,Actually, the funds for those largelycome out of your tax dollars. They're partially paid for by the absurdly low range fees paid by the permit holders, but the difference comes out of recreation fees. To say nothing of all of the other "range improvement" that the BLM funds with taxpayer money.
>that all animals use.Actually, studies have shown that most animals shun areas where domestic livestock congregate.
>>251338>Something tells me you live in the east, where ranching is not a way of life. Have fun with your city parks and sidewalks.Western high country born and bred. My parents weren't even hippies or anything; I first stumbled across the issue when I was on a road trip with my parents as a wee lad and wondered why there were at least three or four species of tall grass in the highway right-of-way but the land on the other side of the fence looked like someone had gone over it with a safety razor and then sprinkled sagebrush all over.
If you both tell me where you live I can give you a few examples of national parks of wilderness areas and the like in your state that have no cattle on them for a point of comparison. I'm not trying to be condescending or anything, but this has been going on in across such a staggeringly large area for so long that most people simply don't have a point of reference.
