FLOW supports an end to grazing on public land

Wherever livestock grazing occurs in Oregon it poses a threat to the integrity of aquatic habitat and to water quality.  Grazing compacts soils, eliminates vegetation, disrupts hydrology through changes to channel incision and overland flow, and increases bank erosion through livestock-initiated bank instability. The public land grazing program administered by the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management is highly subsidized, benefits only a  fraction of Oregon's livestock operators, and damages water quality and wildlife habitat on millions of acres in Oregon.

Picture: Cows on the upper meadows in the Big Grayback Allotment, Rogue River NF