Anti-Grazing Book
Due Out This Summer

WASHINGTON — A book, "Welfare Ranching: The Subsidized Destruction of the American West," published by the National Public Lands Grazing Campaign, is expected out this summer.

The National Public Lands Grazing Campaign, composed of radical environmentalists, is the same group that wants to purchase grazing permits from ranchers and retire them. That program was introduced last fall at a meeting of environmental activists called RangeNet.

More than 75 groups have endorsed the plan to end livestock grazing on federal lands in the West.

Although special legislation is needed to carry out the program, letters have been sent to some 25,000 grazing permittees asking for their support.

The NPLGC claims that some ranchers have already relinquished their grazing permits in exchange for compensation from third parties.

The subject was a hot topic at the New Mexico Cattle Growers Association convention in December.