| Jurisdiction |
Animal Unit Months |
Acres |
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| Federal Lands | |||||
| Bureau of Land Management |
7,872,8191 |
163,311,163 2 |
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| National Park Service |
81,752 3 |
< 3,000,000 4 |
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| U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service |
258,166 5 |
1,416,005 6 |
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| USDA-Forest Service |
7,963,2337 |
89,550,382 8 |
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| Subtotal (federal lands) |
16,175,970 |
± 257,277,550 |
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| State Lands | |||||
| Arizona |
1,185,030 9 |
8,400,000 10 |
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| California |
* |
75,00010 |
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| Colorado |
598,980 11 |
2,600,00010 |
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| Idaho |
240,000 12 |
1,900,00010 |
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| Montana |
1,090,000 13 |
4,100,00010 |
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| Nevada |
* |
110,00010 |
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| New Mexico |
135,937 14 |
8,000,00010 |
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| Oregon |
68,844 15 |
550,00010 |
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| Utah |
198,000 16 |
3,150,00010 |
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| Washington |
* |
873,000 17 |
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| Wyoming |
900,000 18 |
3,600,00010 |
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| Subtotal (state lands) |
±4,416,791 |
33,358,000 |
|||
| TOTALS |
±20,592,761 |
± 290,635,550 |
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* Data unavailable.
1 AUMs in eleven western states (AZ, CA, CO, ID, MT, NV, NM, OR, UT, WA, WY). Bureau of Land Management. 2003. PUBLIC LAND STATISTICS 2002. (data reported for fiscal year 2002 [Oct. 2001-Sept. 2002], as of Dec. 17, 2002).
2 Acres in eleven western states. GAO. 1992. Rangeland management: profile of the Bureau of Land Management’s grazing allotments and permits. RCED 92-213FS. Government Accounting Office. Washington, DC.
3 Joyce, L. A. 1989. An analysis of the range forage situation in the United States: 1989-2040. Gen. Tech. Rep . RM-180. USDA-Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Exp . Stn. Fort Collins, CO.
4 Parks, monuments, and memorials administered by the National Park Service in eleven western states. Jacobs, L. 1991. Waste of the West. Lynn Jacobs, Tucson, AZ: 473.
5 All units of National Wildlife Refuge System. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 2001. National wildlife refuges – grazing and haying. Available at www.refuges.fws.gov/habitat/grazinghaying.html. (data from 1994; accessed May 2001).
6 All units of National Wildlife Refuge System. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 2001. National wildlife refuges – grazing and haying. Available at www.refuges.fws.gov/habitat/grazinghaying.html. (data from 1994; accessed May 2001).
7 Permitted AUMs on national forests and national grasslands. USDA-Forest Service. 2000. Grazing statistical summary FY 2000. USDA-Forest Service, Range Management. Washington, DC. Available at http://www.fs.fed.us/rangelands/ftp/docs/graz_stat_2000.pdf.
8 Forest Service acres grazed in all or parts of fifteen western states (AZ, CA, CO, ID, KS, MT, ND, NE, NV, NM, OR, SD, UT, WA, WY). GAO. 1993. Rangeland management: profile of the Forest Service’s grazing allotments and permittees. RCED 93-141FS. Government Accounting Office. Washington, DC.
9 Steven Williams, Arizona State Lands Department, pers. comm. June 28, 2001.
10 Baldwin, P. and B. Cody. 1996. Survey of grazing programs in western states. Report for Congress. Congressional Research Service. Washington, DC.
11 Jeannie Barber, Colorado State Lands Board, pers. comm. July 17, 2001.
12 Jon Marvel, Western Watersheds Project, pers. comm. June 20, 2001.
13 Kevin Chappell, Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation, pers. comm. June 27, 2001.
14 Dennis Garcia, New Mexico Department of Lands, pers. comm. Aug. 1, 2001.
15 Nancy Pustis, Oregon Department of State Lands, pers. comm. June 26, 2001.
16 Carter, J. 2001. Hunters and wildlife supporters: it’s not bears, cougars, or coyotes – it’s livestock! Willow Creek Ecology. Mendon, UT. (handout).
17 McClure, R. 2001. Leasing state land for grazing yields little profit, analysis finds. Seattle Post-Intelligencer (July 6, 2001). Available at http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/30273_graze06.shtml.
18 Matt Hubler, Wyoming Department of Agriculture, pers. comm. July 23, 2001.