Arizona Grazing Clearinghouse
@agch.bsky.social
Dedicated to preventing the ecological degradation caused by livestock grazing on Arizona's public lands, and exposing the government subsidies that support it.
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...
azgrazingclearinghouse.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:37 PM
EQIP Program Provides Huge Subsidies To Public Land Ranchers azgrazingclearinghouse.org/eqip-for-pub... #USDA #subsidies #arizona #EQIP
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.
www.politico.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Does this mean Congress will eliminate the subsidies for public land ranchers? #socialism www.politico.com/live-updates...
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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...
azgrazingclearinghouse.org
October 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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...
azgrazingclearinghouse.org
October 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Holistic Resource Management (HRM) Grazing Schemes Are Degenerative azgrazingclearinghouse.org/holistic-res... #snakeoil #HRM #holisticresourcemanagment #livestockgrazing #publiclands
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...
azgrazingclearinghouse.org
October 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Ranchers Want To Graze More Of Arid Tonto National Forest azgrazingclearinghouse.org/more-tonto-n... #wilderness #sonorandesert #arizona #tontonationalforest
Privatizing Public Lands is More Republican Kookery azgrazingclearinghouse.org/privatizing-... #publiclands #republicans
Privatizing Public Lands is More Republican Kookery
Republican proposals to privatize Forest Service and BLM lands in the Western states are another example of their ideological bankruptcy.
azgrazingclearinghouse.org
September 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Privatizing Public Lands is More Republican Kookery azgrazingclearinghouse.org/privatizing-... #publiclands #republicans
biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press... #arizona #endangeredspecies #publiclands #tontonationalforest
Lawsuit Launched to End Widespread Cow Grazing Damage to Tonto National Forest’s Endangered Animals
TUCSON, Ariz.— The Center for Biological Diversity and Maricopa Bird Alliance today filed a notice of intent to sue the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to end years of illegal c...
biologicaldiversity.org
September 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Reposted by Arizona Grazing Clearinghouse
This bill isn’t a response to disaster. It’s a plan to capitalize on it—to use each new climate-driven crisis as an excuse to erode conservation protections and normalize grazing in areas that are supposed to be in recovery.
The RANCH Act is a Backdoor Land Grab
Rep. Celeste Maloy—Bundy cousin and former Representative Stewart (R-UT) staffer—is the latest in a long string of legislators who want to open “vacant” public lands to subsidized ranching.
westernwatersheds.substack.com
July 29, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This bill isn’t a response to disaster. It’s a plan to capitalize on it—to use each new climate-driven crisis as an excuse to erode conservation protections and normalize grazing in areas that are supposed to be in recovery.
Reposted by Arizona Grazing Clearinghouse
This fantasy of regenerative grazing—AMP systems, riparian fencing, rotational grazing with close monitoring—is only viable in places with water, infrastructure, and labor. It’s tailored to the wetter, more forgiving lands east of the 100th meridian. Western public lands are something else entirely.
What the Land Needs Is a Break, Not a Rotation
Why “carbon cowboys” and regenerative grazing can’t fix the ecological damage of public lands ranching
westernwatersheds.substack.com
August 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
This fantasy of regenerative grazing—AMP systems, riparian fencing, rotational grazing with close monitoring—is only viable in places with water, infrastructure, and labor. It’s tailored to the wetter, more forgiving lands east of the 100th meridian. Western public lands are something else entirely.
On May 29 the USDA announced its "temporary" Emergency Livestock Relief Program (ELRP) was being renewed due to funding provided in the American Relief Act, 2025, signed by Pres. Biden in December, 2024. azgrazingclearinghouse.org/az-elrp-reci... #subsidies #publiclands #drought
Arizona Emergency Livestock Relief Program (ELRP) Recipients, 2022-2023
Searchable list of Arizona recipients of Emergency Livestock Relief Program (ELRP) assistance paid by the USDA's Farm Service Agency from 2022 to 2023. All of the recipients listed below aren't public...
azgrazingclearinghouse.org
July 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
On May 29 the USDA announced its "temporary" Emergency Livestock Relief Program (ELRP) was being renewed due to funding provided in the American Relief Act, 2025, signed by Pres. Biden in December, 2024. azgrazingclearinghouse.org/az-elrp-reci... #subsidies #publiclands #drought
On July 4th, 2025, Trump signed H.R.1, his "big beautiful bill," into law. It included a provision that made it easier for ranchers to receive Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP) assistance.
azgrazingclearinghouse.org/livestock-fo... #subsidies #USDA #publiclands #drought
azgrazingclearinghouse.org/livestock-fo... #subsidies #USDA #publiclands #drought
Livestock Forage Disaster Program A Disaster For Taxpayers
Ranchers in the desert Southwest have received large subsidies from the USDA's Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP) which have perpetuated unsustainable ranching on arid public land administered by...
azgrazingclearinghouse.org
July 27, 2025 at 10:17 PM
On July 4th, 2025, Trump signed H.R.1, his "big beautiful bill," into law. It included a provision that made it easier for ranchers to receive Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP) assistance.
azgrazingclearinghouse.org/livestock-fo... #subsidies #USDA #publiclands #drought
azgrazingclearinghouse.org/livestock-fo... #subsidies #USDA #publiclands #drought
azgrazingclearinghouse.org/grazing-perm... #BLM #ForestService #publiclands #subsidies #drought #desert
Voluntary Federal Grazing Permit Retirements Are A Solution
The federal government is spending hundreds of millions of dollars annually in a misguided and often futile attempt to try and maintain ranching on Western public lands that aren't suited for livestoc...
azgrazingclearinghouse.org
June 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM