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Saturday, June 18, 2005

Administration excised scientists' warnings in grazing report

By Julie Cart / Los Angeles Times

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The Bush administration altered critical portions of a scientific
analysis of the environmental impact of cattle grazing on public lands
before announcing Thursday that it would relax regulations limiting
grazing on those lands, according to scientists involved in the study.

A government biologist and a hydrologist, who both retired this year
from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, said their conclusions that the
proposed rules might adversely affect water quality and wildlife,
including endangered species, were excised and replaced with language
justifying less stringent regulations, which are favored by cattle
ranchers.

Grazing regulations, which affect 160 million acres of public land in
the Western United States, set the conditions under which ranchers may
use that land, and guide government managers in determining how many
cattle may graze, where, and for how long without harming natural
resources.

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