Central Oregon Bitterbrush Broads • Entered by Mary Fleischmann on August 18, 2024
Grazing BRAT
August 6, 2024
Participants and Hours
| Pre Planning hours | 1 |
| Post Admin hours | 2.75 |
| Activity Hours | 1 |
| Participants | 3 |
| Total Hours | 6.75 |
Key Issue: Livestock Grazing Management
Activity Type: Advocacy (rallies, lobbying, meeting decision makers, letters/calls/emails)
Key Partners: Numerous broadband chaptersRegul
Short Description of Activity
Regular Grazing BRAT meeting
Reflection/Evaluation
Doing more work on getting letters to the various FS regions to attain consistency with getting information we all need to obtain AOI’s and pasture maps in our local national forest, Discussion of utilizing a grazing app which might assist us with using the same tool for gathering information in the field. Folks are feeling there needs to be more than just taking and submitting pictures to the Forest Service. One of the issues that some forests in Region 6 experiences is permittees move allotments with no dates set and the dates are left to the permittee. Another important tool when we send in letters or give testimony is to include the “social cost to carbon” which addrssed the $ amounts of methan that is emitted from livestock…