-Overgrazing is part of what caused the great dust bowls of the 1930s, when large pieces of land in the Great Plains became useless and ranchers there were forced to move.

I didn't think overgrazing contributed to the dustbowl. Too much livestock in an area where, due to the lack of crops, they couldn't have been able to feed in the first place?

They overfarmed for sure. plowed up too much land and then it started blowing like hell.

You have a link for that? I'm not calling you out.......but what I've learned about how agriculture contributed to the dust bowl was the act of plowing up too much land....not overgrazing.

But I agree this is not who should be getting this great deal on grazing fees......unfortunately congressional representatives from those States carry a big stick and low grazing fees are always a cheap give away to them in exchange for a vote on something else.

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"The Dust Bowl was the chickens coming home to roost after the ethnic cleansing of the West; the wanton slaughter of the buffalo, the deliberate starving out of the Indians, the destruction of their sustainable way of life which we hilariously claimed was their misuse of the land.
The Dust Bowl was a manmade event.
You should have known that when you were 25, not opening your eyes to it for the first time when you're 50."

This poster is outright insane and so unbelievably desperate for my attention.

I understand all of that. My history wasn't whitewashed on the dust bowl. Clarifying the overgrazing has zero to do with that.

-However, because grazing fees are so low, they have too many head of cattle on the land, which is leading to erosion and degradation of the land.

Is the argument that if we increased the grazing fees then they'd put fewer cattle on the land?

If they are overgrazing then they're overgrazing but how is that correlated to the grazing fees? Especially these guys who are billionaires anyway.....