USDA chief: Give me more cattle in the national forests!

Plus a Messing with Maps look back at the summer of 1776

🐮 Grazing Gazette 🥩

An AUM — i.e. a cow and a calf — in the Lisbon Valley in southeastern Utah. Jonathan P. Thompson photo.

Last month, U.S. Agriculture Department Undersecretary Michael Boren issued a memo, with a preamble by Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, to Forest Service employees directing them on “advancing grazing on Forest Service” lands.