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This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West

Book by Christopher Ketcham · 3 quotes · Cattle, Grazing, Logging

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“The argument goes like this: even if public grazing contributes almost nothing to local economies and national food production, it nonetheless supports "an important western lifestyle and the rural west's social and cultural fabric." If we keep ranchers working on the range, on the big wide-open of the public domain, we ensure the historical continuity of a "custom" that has gone on for close to 150 years.”

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“The top 10 percent of grazing-permit holders on federal lands own 50 percent of all livestock on those lands; the bottom 50 percent own just 5 percent.”

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“In eastern Oregon and Washington, where grazing reigns supreme, an estimated 90 percent of the sage biome is gone.”

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