Celeste Maloy: “Grazing is one of the cheapest, most effective ways of…”

“When you pull the livestock off the land, the fuels keep growing and they build up year after year until a dry summer like this one and a lightning strike turn into a fire that nobody can stop. Grazing is one of the cheapest, most effective ways of preventing fuel buildup. The laws always set our public lands there for multiple use, and the grazing is the highest and best use of most of these acres. Grazing, recreation, timber, wildlife, that's.” (02:02–02:08)

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