Originally Posted by Sycamore


Not so sure if windmills and plastic pipe, put in in the 1960's and 1970's, with govt money, will hold the same force of precedent.

Sycamore


.gov didn't have much money for range improvements until 1976 act and it was the 1978 PRIA act from congress before they had substantial money.

Before 1967 the .gov spent almost all it's budget on the agency, in 1967 it spent .10 to the rancher's 1.25... which was an improvement.

from 1975 to 1979 the agency took 2.5mil per year from the lessee's 50% share for agency costs to build personnel. In 1982 BLM spent 13mil on range improvements. The ranchers by this time were holding theirs, and the same or less was actually being spent compared to the 60s.

Also seems BLM was fudging a bit on how well improved the range conditions were to continue expanding it's budget from congress.

'Visions upon the land' has a bunch of history on the BLM and FS expansion through the 1900s. You can pretty much see who built these infrastructures starting the the 1800s.

Kent