Public lands ranching and rewilding

Given the hardships of ranching in the arid and semi arid American West - problems of cost, heavy labor, weather, climate, water, critters, soil health, agency management, what ever else makes the life tough…

What would it take for you to either:

  1. cash out and sell and retire your allotments/permits and leases

  2. take a buyout to help rewild or restore and better manage the land but without commercial cattle - say smaller herds and making your income more from the restoration subsidy.

I’m thinking here of

Posted Jul 10, 2026, 5:58 PM UTC

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