“Public grazing provides just one dollar out of every $2,500 of taxable income in the West, or 0.04 percent, and just one out of everything 1,400 jobs, or 0.07 percent. On both public and private lands in the eleven Western states, the livestock industry accounts for less than 0.5 percent of all income.” EconomyCattleLivestock Book:This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West Source: This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West