Grazing Allotments

Click here for University of Idaho Stubble Height Study Report
By: University of Idaho Stubble Height Review Team - July 2004

Click here for Principles of Obtaining and Interpreting Utilization
Data on Southwest Rangelands - The University of Arizona, Cooperative Extension

If you own grazing allotments, please refer to these papers on Stubble Height. They are important!

I know first hand about a case in Utah, where the science was ignored and government's idea of stubble height was solely recognized.

In 2000, the Griffin Cattle Company (Escalante, UT) had a range con from UT State do a study on their open allotment (Fifty Mile Mtn. a.k.a. Kaparowitts) stubble height. He found it to be acceptable for continued grazing. In spite of that "scientific" finding, the BLM kicked them off their allotment, began impounding their cattle and assessing huge fines. It became so gruesome that Quinn (Griffin) finally had to hire a helicopter and shooter to take down 26 cows and one calf of his...just to stop the financial bleeding. The BLM never righted their wrongs with the Griffin's.

Read more here: http://www.rangemagazine.com/archives/stories/summer01/making_monuments.htm

Since, I've become aware of many situations where stubble height may be lowered to accommodate excess feral horses, and raised (as always) to disadvantage cattle. Range cons are being fired (or their lives made a living hell) - just because they stick to science and refuse to go along government's ideas of stubble height.

Roni Bell Sylvester - Volunteer editor LAW USA