After wildfires, ranchers face 2-year delay to graze cattle on federal land – is it doing more harm than good?

Photo caption: Cattle on the range, Idaho Falls District – taken on June 4, 2022. Photo credit: Bureau of Land Management Idaho via Flickr. CC BY 2.0. Article by Jared L. Talley. The Conversation – December 16, 2024.

Lightning struck deep in the central Idaho mountains on July 24, 2024, igniting the Wapiti Fire that burned across 129,063 acres around Stanley, Idaho – a place known for its scenic vistas and idyllic rural landscape. Local communities evacuated, then returned home when the danger had passed. But for ranchers who graze livestock here, evacuation […]

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