Taylor Grazing Act of 1934

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Those range wars pushed the government to act, leading to the 1934 Taylor Grazing Act that established federal permits and later the BLM's grazing regulations.

Who was the President of the United States during that time period and how did they react to such a situation?

The Pleasant Valley War unfolded while Chester A. Arthur , Grover Cleveland , and Benjamin Harrison were in office.

None of them issued a strong federal response.

The conflicts were seen as local lawlessness, and only later did the government address grazing rights with the 1934 Taylor Grazing Act.

Hypothetically speaking, what would our current president do with a situation like this?

Trump would likely federalize the National Guard to stop the violence immediately, then push for stronger federal oversight of grazing rights while supporting ranchers' property interests.

If I can get it from you, I'd love you for it.

Those range wars pushed the government to act, leading to the 1934 Taylor Grazing Act that established federal permits and later the BLM's grazing regulations.

Who was the President of the United States during that time period and how did they react to such a situation?

The Pleasant Valley War unfolded while Chester A. Arthur , Grover Cleveland , and Benjamin Harrison were in office.

None of them issued a strong federal response.

The conflicts were seen as local lawlessness, and only later did the government address grazing rights with the 1934 Taylor Grazing Act.

Hypothetically speaking, what would our current president do with a situation like this?

Trump would likely federalize the National Guard to stop the violence immediately, then push for stronger federal oversight of grazing rights while supporting ranchers' property interests.

By the 20th century, those older conflicts over land had been folded into a modern system of federal ownership, grazing permits, and regulation, the very system Clive and Bundy would eventually reject.

Congress passed the Taylor Grazing Act in 1934.

It created grazing districts, leases, and limits based on how much forage the land could produce.

Ranchers got clearer rules, but they also had to accept a basic distinction.

He's one of those guys who like pivoted to transphobia because he thought it was politically successful.

Um, the, the Burgum has, they have, they're reinter- this is really inside baseball, but they're reinterpreting the Taylor Grazing Act to not allow the grazing of buffalo or bison, uh, I think buffalo is fine, in certain parts of pub- some plots of public land in Montana because they do not consider it a productive use of land.

Huh.

And that is the really, that is the big conspiracy, right? That our land-

We're hearing it time and time again from people across Montana, across the West, and across the country.

Another really important point is that the court's ruling recognizes what American Prairie has been arguing from the beginning, that the Taylor Grazing Act does not require a grazing operation to focus exclusively on production and ignore conservation or restoration.

The court found that our bison qualify as livestock, again, which is what we have been saying, and that we have demonstrated a likelihood of success on the merits of this case.

Judge Morris also questioned the basis for the BLM's decision.

But we have enacted government policies to try and promote the production of livestock out here in the West.

That was part of the whole settlement program was First, the Homestead Act and then the Taylor Grazing Act to try and get more livestock out onto these landscapes.

And it's hard work.

It's hard work keeping livestock alive out here.

In my opinion, that should be the headline.

The headline should be, so the BLM is trying to regulate these leases that have their roots in the 1934 Taylor Grazing Act.

I'm nodding knowingly.

Yeah, yeah.

The Taylor Grazing Act is a big deal when it comes to public land in the West and farming, right? It is trying to regulate these leases to quote-unquote productive purposes.

It doesn't say productive purposes anywhere I can find in the Taylor Grazing Act.

It does use the term, I guess, domestic livestock.

A bison could be a livestock.