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Hermannr
The leases are very vaulable because they are being paid for by taxpayers. James Ruby
Mr. Ruby, you are so wrong. It is very obvious you have never had to pay $$$$$ for grazing your cows. I will illustrate:
In the state of WA two sections out of every township are "school sections" revenue from this land is to be used to support public education.
You do not have to pay to recreate or hunt on this land, so how is the school going to benefit (assuming it is not timberland, or it is not to be cut as timber at the present time) Oh my, the ranchers lease (make payments to the government) based on the number of cow/calf pairs are on it, every month they are on it. Works exactly the same way for FS and BLM land. We PAY big time to run our cattle on government land.
OK, lets say that one of the proposals to reduce the public debt is innitiated, that is give the Federal FS land back to the states (like back east) and the state auctions it off. Guess what, property taxes are less than what lease payments are, and the land would be better managed. You think the ranchers can just run their cattle on government land for free??? think again big boy