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Cattle ranchers wage
debate over desert lands
By LESLIE FARRIS
Ol the Emerald
The debate over wilderness designation in
southeast Oregon inevitably pits cattle ranchers
against conservationists.
That conflict was demonstrated this week at
the University during the Oregon Desert
Wilderness Forum when representatives from
both sides discussed the federal Bureau of Land
Management wilderness review.
BLM is currently under a legal mandate to
recommend to Congress and the president by
1991 specific parcels of public land for permanent
protection as wilderness.
After several years of study and public hear
ings, BLM announced last winter 2.5 million of its
17.5 million acres of federally controlled land in
Oregon qualified as wilderness study areas. BLM
will be studying these areas for the next few years
to determine if they should be included in the
National Wilderness Preservation System.
“The study phase is the real guts of the
wilderness review,” said BLM representative Dan
Bowman. “BLM has the opportunity and the
responsibility to make reality of the multiple-use
concept.
“It’s impossible to accommodate all. The
ranchers, representatives of mineral industries
and other industries, off-road vehicles, recrea
tionists and others who value wilderness all have
different interests," Bowman said. “But it’s un
fortunate that these different representatives
have been polarized and find it difficult to com
promise.”
Two groups always at odds over the use of
southeastern Oregon desert wilderness are the
cattle ranchers and the conservationists. Cattle
ranchers say they don't want to see the amount of
grazing land diminished, while conservationists
say they don’t want to see the natural ecosystem
of the desert destroyed.
Bowman said BLM now is conducting a
series of Environmental Impact Statements on the
effect of grazing on public lands. BLM has been
accused of allowing overgrazing in southeast
Oregon and now is taking steps to reduce it. But
Bowman said ranchers are confusing the
wilderness issue with the grazing issue.
“There is no question wilderness areas will
continue to be grazed," Bowman said, "but we
cannot allow unlimited grazing in wilderness
areas."
Nevertheless, Bowman said cattle ranchers
in eastern Oregon are "fiercely antagonistic”
toward BLM and the wilderness review.
"Wilderness advocates are going to have to
contend with that every step of the way,” he said.
"The position of the ranching community at large
seems to be no wilderness, though the position of
the wilderness advocates is not ‘no more cows.’
Bill Stevenson, a member of the Oregon Beef
Council, said he doesn’t agree that desert lands
have been overgrazed.
"We think we were the original conserva
tionists,” Stevenson said. “In my experience, if
we overgraze, we’re out of business.”
Stevenson said cattle ranchers wouldn’t be
allowed to practice the most modern land-man
agement techniques under wilderness status, and
that could put many of the small family-owned
ranches out of business.
Andy Kerr of the Oregon Wilderness Coali
tion said the ranchers should not be removing
native vegetation to plant crested wheat-grass.
"They're turning the natural ecosystem into a
monoculture, erecting fences in public lands, and
we’re subsidizing it,” Kerr said. "BLM continually
puts out more money than it takes in at the
expense of the taxpayers, you and me.”
Bowman said in 1980 BLM’s grazing income
was $2.2 million, while its range management and
improvement expenditures were $3.7 million.
“BLM is starting to exercise responsibility,
and that’s going to cause changes,” Kerr said.
“It’s the cattle industry who has the most to lose
because they gained the most in the past.”
This column is written by
Planned Parenthood, 134 E.
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referral.
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newspapers about a “human
life statute" that Congress is
considering. How does this sta
tute differ from the human life
amendment that is intended to
outlaw abortion?
The Human Life Statute, in
troduced by Sens. Jesse Helms,
R-N.C., and Henry Hyde, R-lll.,
seeks to define human person
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moment of conception, thereb
guaranteeing the fertilized eg*
all rights and protection unde
the Constitution. Since 1972
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to avoid the Supreme Court’
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right to choose abortion. The
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complex and requires two
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senatorial colleagues for a more
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