they "chain" the sage desert in NV, kill off wolves and eagles and sage grouse... don't get me started.
They pay the same rate for a cow/calf pair as they did back in 1960s... less than $2 a month (each requires many acres/cow in the first place). They have US pay for the removal of natural/native predators to protect their business ventures on public land in addition to the cheap grazing fees. Out here many of us call the USDA APHIS predator "control" folks the taxpayer funded private rancher's hit squad who go out in helicopters and crop duster style aircraft and kill our wildlife for the ranchers when they gripe about predation. But the inconvenient truth is that more livestock die from weather related events than predation every year...
A good read about that: WOLFER A Memoir. Carter Niemeyer ISBN 978-0-9848113-0-4
I say, if you don't have a yard big enough for all yer dawgs, maybe you don't need so many dawgs.
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