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The Arizona Legislature embraced conflicts of interest when it created the Arizona Livestock Loss Board (ALLB) in 2015 to disperse federal funds to ranchers for expenses resulting from the 1998 introduction of endangered Mexican wolves in the national forests of eastern Arizona and western New Mexico. The legislation which established the 9-member Board was sponsored …
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The Arizona Game & Fish Department is involved in the business of cattle ranching on public land, despite the fact its only legal purpose is to administer the “laws of the state relating to wildlife.” The agency’s management of the Horseshoe Ranch, which it acquired in 2011, is the prime example. It’s the only one …
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The Arizona Legislature has made drastic changes to the state’s two natural Heritage Funds since Arizona voters passed Proposition 200 in 1990 to create and annually divert up to $10 million to each of them. The one administered by the Game & Fish Commision is now being used as a source of ranching subsidies.
Government agencies have quietly distributed large subsidies to public land ranchers in the Desert Southwest during the region’s long-term ongoing megadrought.
Arizona’s Water Quality Improvement Grant (WQIG) program is a part of the bewildering array of state and federal government assistance programs which are subsidizing the state’s public land ranchers.