Public lands grazing: Welfare ranching in the New West "Although cattle grazing in the West has polluted more water, eroded more topsoil, killed more fish, displaced more wildlife, and destroyed more vegitation than any other land use, the American public pays ranchers to do it." Ted Williams, "He's Going to Have an Accident," Audubon 1991 Public Lands Grazing Links Lynn Jacob's Waste of the West: Public Lands Ranching is available online - all 600 pages of it, and with more pictures than are in the book. Yellowstone held hostage by million dollar cheeseburgers Before the Cows: Eyewitness accounts of the West before the land was degraded by cattle. You can't cram a square peg in a round hole: A commentary on the inappropriateness of livestock grazing in the desert. A 1998 study by the Forest Service determined that cattle grazing is the most prevalent threat to endangered species in the Southwest. Corporate Desperadoes: Romantic notions of the West mask the damage of public lands grazing. End Commercial Grazing on Federal Public Land -- An Argument U.S. subsidies prop up cattle grazing in West: Do funds reward the rich and promote damage to the land? Livestock Grazing and Water Quality. Grazing damages more river miles than any other source of non-industrial pollution in the West. Grazing to Extinction. The species listed here have one thing in common--they are being driven to extinction by historic and ongoing abusive grazing practices on our public lands. Cattle ranching on the public lands of the American West is the most sacred form of public welfare in the United States. --Edward Abbey We hope that you too will discover that our natural heritage is best kept Forever Wild, and will be motivated to help us toward our goal.