The BLM also encourages efforts such as the work of a group in Idaho's Shoshone Basin to manage BLM grazing allotments for both livestock forage and sage-grouse habitat. The percentage of grouse habitat there rated as "excellent" rose to 24 percent of the allotment, up from 2 percent....
BLM maintains the horse advocates are perpetuating a myth and many ranchers claim it's part of a ploy to push livestock off public lands. “There are plenty of horses out in the Nevada desert,” said Tom Collins, a Clark County commissioner who has a ranch outside of Las Vegas and has ...
the BLM administers the lands that remain from America’s original “public domain.” Created in 1946 through a government reorganization…the BLM is the successor to the General Land Office (established in 1812) and the U.S. Grazing Service (originally called the Division of Grazing and rename...