Government agencies have quietly distributed large subsidies that increased livestock grazing on public land in the Desert Southwest during the ongoing long-term megadrought.
Category Archives: Bureau of Land Management
ADEQ Water Quality Grants Are Subsidizing Arizona Ranchers
Arizona’s Water Quality Improvement Grant (WQIG) program is a part of the bewildering array of government assistance program’s available to the state’s public land ranchers.
Arizona Legislature Diverted Prop. 303 Money To Ranchers
Arizona voters passed Proposition 303 in 1998 to fund the Growing Smarter Act with the belief that it would provide $20 million a year for communities and nonprofits to buy state land to preserve it as natural open space. But very few of the voters knew that the Arizona Legislature had secretly included a clause …
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Arizona Game & Fish Department Helping Wildlife That Go Moo
The money raised from the annual Arizona Big Game Super Raffle of hunt permit-tags donated to hunting groups by the Arizona Game & Fish Commission is required by law to be used for wildlife habitat improvements. But some of the money is being spent to subsidize ranchers who are permitted to graze cattle on public …
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Livestock Forage Disaster Program A Disaster For Taxpayers
Ranchers in the desert Southwest are receiving subsidies from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to purchase livestock feed which helps them maintain livestock numbers on public lands that are suffering from persistent and recurrent drought.