Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife owns or manages in excess of 100,000 acres of land, the great majority of it being managed for fish and wildlife. In the past several years, there has been an increasing tendency, in fact, a policy, of permitting livestock grazing on some of these lands, the majority of which are shrub-steppe habitat. The management responsibilities of the Department include all animal life, not just game species. Do state fish and wildlife agencies in other states manage large amounts of land for wildlife, and do they permit livestock grazing? I'm curious mostly about western states with toeholds in the Great Basin/Columbia Basin ecoregion, because it is these ecoregions which retain a significant proportion of their original plant and animal biota, but great plains states may also have significant thoughts to add.
Mike Marsh Washington Native Plant Society [EMAIL PROTECTED]
