… 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. That was the deal that the west made with the federal government, and it's. It's been slowly chipped away at for years. (02:07–02:14)
CLAIM
Asserts that laws designate public lands for multiple uses, with grazing being the best use for most acres.
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