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Arizona Grazing Clearinghouse
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Dedicated to preventing the ecological degradation caused by livestock grazing on Arizona's public lands, and exposing the government subsidies that support it.
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Arizona Grazing Clearinghouse @agch.bsky.social · Jun 24
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Public Land Grazing Reform Proposals
Public land grazing reform proposals include more than increasing the monthly grazing fee toward its market value. Here's a list of other changes that should also be made, regardless of the grazing fe...
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Amounts of LFP assistance provided to Arizona ranchers in 2025 now available online. azgrazingclearinghouse.org/arizona-live... #arizona #publiclands #drought
Arizona Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP) Recipients, 2022 – 2025
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February 7, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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The amounts of ELRP assistance provided in 2025 to Arizona ranchers is now available online.

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Arizona Emergency Livestock Relief Program (ELRP) Recipients, 2022, 2023 & 2025
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February 6, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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Lawsuit Targets Illegal Livestock Grazing in Arizona’s Tonto National Forest
PHOENIX— The Center for Biological Diversity and Maricopa Bird Alliance sued the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for allowing illegal cattle grazing to destroy protected s...
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February 6, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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azgrazingclearinghouse.org/az-water-pro... #arizona #subsidies #publiclands #ranching
Arizona Water Protection Fund Grants Hijacked
The Arizona Water Protection Fund (AWPF) has been hijacked by ranchers and other agricultural interests, despite the fact it was created in 1994 by the Arizona Legislature to protect and enhance the s...
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January 16, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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azgrazingclearinghouse.org/az-natural-r... #arizona #subsidies #ranching #publiclands
Arizona Ranchers Get Another Government Assistance Program
In 2024 the Arizona Legislature made another government assistance program available to ranchers with their passage of HB 2865, even though many similar programs already exist. This legislation create...
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January 12, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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azgrazingclearinghouse.org/arizona-graz... #arizona #subsidies #schoolfunding
Arizona State Grazing Leases Mismanaged In Favor Of Ranchers
The State of Arizona is managing its state land grazing leases primarily for the benefit of ranchers, not the state's public schools - as is required by federal law. Arizona acquired its state lands a...
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December 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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www.propublica.org/article/poli... #publiclands #plutocracy
Powerful Friends: Sympathetic Officials and “Cultural Power” Help Ranchers Dodge Oversight
Elected officials are quick to support public lands ranchers who are accused of breaking rules. As a result, federal agencies pull punches when enforcing regulations.
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December 16, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Stan Kroenke is also the permittee for several grazing allotments in the Coronado National Forest's Douglas Ranger District in the Chiricahua Mountains through his Geronimo Ranch LLC, and Geronimo El Coronado Ranches Holdings LLC.
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Wealthy Ranchers Profit From Public Lands. Taxpayers Pick Up the Tab.
A ProPublica and High Country News investigation found that government programs supporting grazing on public lands prop up a wealthy few while harming the environment. The Trump administration is supe...
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December 16, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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www.propublica.org/article/graz... #publiclands #NEPA
A Loophole Allows Ranchers to Renew Grazing Permits With Little Scrutiny of the Environmental Impact
With dwindling oversight, cattle are grazing where they’re not supposed to and in greater numbers or for longer periods than permitted. This can spread invasive plants, pushing out native species and ...
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December 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Investigations into the subsidies and special treatment given to public land ranchers. www.propublica.org/series/free-... #publiclands #subsidies #ranching
Free Range Archives
The federal grazing system, propped up by subsidies and access to 375,000 square miles of the West, disproportionately benefits billionaires, mining companies and large corporate outfits. Dwindling ov...
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December 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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EQIP Program Provides Huge Subsidies To Public Land Ranchers azgrazingclearinghouse.org/eqip-for-pub... #USDA #subsidies #arizona #EQIP
EQIP Program Provides Huge Subsidies To Public Land Ranchers
The USDA's Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) should be targeted by Congressional budget hawks every time a Farm Bill comes up for renewal because the department's Natural Resources Conse...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Does this mean Congress will eliminate the subsidies for public land ranchers? #socialism www.politico.com/live-updates...
House votes to denounce ‘horrors’ of socialism ahead of Mamdani-Trump meeting
The incoming New York mayor will meet with the president at the White House this afternoon.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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azgrazingclearinghouse.org/government-a... #arizona #subsidies #publiclands
Government Assistance For Arizona Ranchers
The below-market federal grazing fee is just one of the many government subsidies that benefit Arizona's public land ranchers. This list of other government assistance programs that help them is updat...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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azgrazingclearinghouse.org/preserving-o... #publiclands #ranching #openspace
Preserving Public Land Ranching Won’t Protect Open Space In The West
You’ve probably heard ranchers make the argument that we must preserve public land ranching in the West or ranchers will be forced to sell their private land and it will be developed into residential ...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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azgrazingclearinghouse.org/killer-dust-... #arizona #sonorandesert #duststorms
Killer Dust Storms in the Arizona Desert
The ecological costs of cattle grazing in arid regions should be included in all discussions about the West's ranching heritage.
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November 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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azgrazingclearinghouse.org/open-range-l... #openrange
Open Range Laws Of The Western States Are Obsolete
The persistence of open range laws is a good example of the feudalistic and grossly disproportionate political clout of Western cattle ranchers.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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azgrazingclearinghouse.org/livestock-wa... #publiclands #wildlife
New Livestock Waters Aren’t Always Good On Western Public Lands
The ecological effects of building livestock waters should be objectively assessed for net benefits to the local wildlife.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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azgrazingclearinghouse.org/wilderness-g... #arizona #wilderness #tontonationalforest #publiclands
Why Is Livestock Grazing Still Permitted in Federal Wilderness Areas?
Most Americans don't know that livestock grazing is allowed in wilderness areas on public lands, and if they find out, they are usually upset and want to know why - because it doesn't make any sense. ...
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November 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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azgrazingclearinghouse.org/government-a... #arizona #subsidies #publiclands #USDA
Government Subsidies For Arizona Ranchers
The below-market federal grazing fee is just one of the many government subsidies that benefit Arizona's public land ranchers. This list of other government assistance programs that help them is updat...
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November 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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azgrazingclearinghouse.org/are-there-re... #arizona #publiclands #wildhorses #burros
Are There Really Wild Horses in America?
Feral "wild" horses can do just as much damage to arid public lands as cattle, and need to be managed to prevent the ecological degradation their growing numbers can cause.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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azgrazingclearinghouse.org/arizona-publ... #arizona #publiclands #subsidies #forestservice #bureauoflandmanagement
Arizona Public Land Ranches
Arizona ranches that have significantly benefited from government assistance and hold permits or leases for public land grazing allotments. (Additional ranches are added as information becomes availab...
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October 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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azgrazingclearinghouse.org/desert-grazi... #arizona #publiclands #sonorandesert #desert
Livestock Grazing Is Being Permitted on Hot Desert Public Lands
Did you know that the federal agencies charged with managing our public lands permit livestock grazing in desert ecosystems? In Arizona, for instance, where the predominant ecosystem is desert, more t...
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October 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Holistic Resource Management (HRM) Grazing Schemes Are Degenerative azgrazingclearinghouse.org/holistic-res... #snakeoil #HRM #holisticresourcemanagment #livestockgrazing #publiclands
Holistic Resource Management (HRM) Grazing Schemes Are Degenerative
Holistic resource management (HRM) proponents often claim that HRM livestock grazing schemes are a form of regenerative agriculture, but they are degenerative in arid environments. HRM was invented by...
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October 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Ranchers Want To Graze More Of Arid Tonto National Forest azgrazingclearinghouse.org/more-tonto-n... #wilderness #sonorandesert #arizona #tontonationalforest
Ranchers Want To Graze More Of Arid Tonto National Forest
The The Tonto National Forest land management plan (LMP), revised in 2023, includes a provision pushed by local ranchers that could expand livestock grazing into federal wilderness areas. The livestoc...
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October 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Feral burros: A threat to Sonoran Desert, wildlife
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September 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM