Protecting our Clean Water and Habitat from
Over-Grazing

While livestock grazing is compatible on many Idaho landscapes, it's not appropriate everywhere. Over-grazing can damage resources like clean water.

Over- or inappropriate grazing can:

• Damage streams by trampling banks, beating down shoreline plants and causing erosion.
• Ruin popular swimming areas, fish habitat and camping spots.
• Spread disease to prized wildlife, such as wild bighorn sheep.

The Idaho Conservation League works hard to find balanced, common-sense solutions to conflicts between grazing and clean water and wildlife. For example, the Owyhee Initiative strikes a balance that improves the efficiency of permittee operations while furthering protections for remote canyonlands.

For grazing questions contact John Robison or call 208.345.6942 x13.