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November 10, 2017
Dairy/Livestock
Groups sue Forest Service
over winter grazing of sheep
By CAROL RYAN DUMAS
Capital Press
Western Watersheds Proj-
ect and WildEarth Guardians
are challenging a U.S. Forest
Service decision to allow fall
and winter grazing of domes-
tic sheep in the Caribou-Tar-
ghee National Forest.
The groups claim the
grazing would expose a
small population of Rocky
Mountain bighorn sheep to
diseases carried by domestic
sheep that would likely extir-
pate the wild herd.
The lawsuit — filed by Ad-
vocates for the West in U.S.
District Court in Idaho — tar-
gets authorization of grazing
on the Snakey Canyon and
Kelly Canyon allotments west
of Dubois in eastern Idaho.
The allotments are permit-
ted to the U.S. Sheep Exper-
iment Station, a century-old
research facility that grazes
sheep owned by the Universi-
ty of Idaho. Part of its mission
is to improve the sustainabil-
ity of rangeland ecosystems.
The sheep station is au-
thorized to graze 1,200 dry
ewes on the Snakey allotment
from Nov. 6 through Jan. 2
and 1,000 dry ewes on the
Kelly allotment from Nov. 20
through Jan. 3.
The groups have also filed
a motion for a temporary re-
straining order to halt the
grazing.
They are asking the court
to order the Forest Service
to close the allotments until
the agency completes an as-
sessment, initiated in 2015, to
determine the environmental
impacts of grazing in the area.
At issue is the possible
transmission of a pathogen
that causes pneumonic die-
offs within bighorn popula-
tions.
The lawsuit cites court
precedent acknowledging the
high risk of disease transmis-
sion and the ordered or ap-
proved closures of numerous
sheep allotments in Idaho.
One case resulted in the
closure of 70 percent of the
Payette National Forest to do-
mestic sheep grazing, follow-
ing a court-ordered analysis
under the National Environ-
mental Protection Act. That
analysis determined that best
management practices are not
sufficient to prevent contact
and disease transmission.
The groups contend autho-
rizing domestic sheep graz-
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Bighorn sheep run along a steep mountainside. Two environmental
groups have filed suit to stop the grazing of domestic sheep on two
allotments in Eastern Idaho.
ing before the Forest Service
completes its environmental
analysis of the Snakey and
Kelly allotments violates
NEPA.
The agency is required by
NEPA to “look before they
leap” due to the concern of
disease transmission, said
Scott Lake, Idaho director for
the Western Watersheds Proj-
ect.
It only takes one incident
of contact to wipe out an en-
tire herd because bighorn
have no natural immunity
to the pathogen. They didn’t
evolve with it, and it’s not en-
demic in the herd, he said.
“Given the size of this
herd, it won’t take much to
reduce the population to the
level extinction is imminent,”
he said.
The population in question
stood at 36 in 2016 and has
been as small as 13 in recent
years. It only takes losing a
few individuals to get to the
point where the herd can’t re-
populate itself, he said.
The Forest Service deemed
the risk of disease transmis-
sion unacceptable in its deci-
sion on the Payette. The envi-
ronmental groups are hoping
the judge is going to recog-
nize the unacceptable risk and
potential for irreparable harm
to the eastern Idaho herd, he
said.
“We have science on our
side and some precedent,
too,” he said.
Both the precedent and the
science behind it are question-
able, said Cindy Siddoway, an
industry leader, who with her
husband runs a sixth-genera-
tion sheep operation of 10,000
breeding stock in the area.
The best science and best
modeling available weren’t
used in the Payette decision,
and the Forest Service ac-
knowledged it did not consult
with everyone, she said.
The Forest Service ap-
pointed an advisory commit-
tee, which didn’t include the
livestock industry, to evalu-
ate the risk of disease trans-
mission. And the evaluation
didn’t include studies, such as
those from USDA Agricultur-
al Research Service, conclud-
ing disease transmission was
unknown, she said.
District Judge Lynn Win-
mill ordered the committee’s
report not be used in making
decisions and found the For-
est Service in contempt of
court for failing to abide by
that order.
“We really don’t have the
final science on this,” Siddo-
way said.
It’s not black and white,
she said, adding that there
are bighorn die-offs in places
without domestic sheep. The
sheep industry believes there
are other factors involved that
trigger die-offs, such as stress,
genes, immunity levels and
bighorn carriers.
Disease transmission has
occurred in research where
bighorn interact with penned
domestic sheep in a staged
setting, but that’s not neces-
sarily what would happen in
the wild, she said.
“Just keeping them (do-
mestic sheep) away is not go-
ing to solve the problem. We
need to know what the trig-
gers are … why some die and
some don’t,” she said.
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The blocks dropped
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The barrels were un-
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atop the blocks.
Dairy Market News re-
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ebbed slightly for some Mid-
west cheesemakers. Western
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supplies are substantial, but
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International sales are good
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Cash butter fell to
$2.2225 last Thursday but
closed Friday at $2.2325,
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and 34 cents above a year
ago.
The
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CME Grade A nonfat dry
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The nation’s October
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