“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
“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.” CattleLivestockGrazingRanchers 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