Under this formula, the grazing fee cannot fall below $1.35 per animal unit month (AUM) also, any fee increase or decrease cannot exceed 25 percent of the previous year’s level. The federal grazing fee is adjusted annually and is calculated by using a formula originally set by Congress in the Public Rangelands Improvement Act of 1978. The receipts from these annual fees, in accordance with legislative requirements, are shared with state and local governments. In 2015, the BLM collected $14.5 million in grazing fees. The other funds covered such activities as weed management, rangeland monitoring, planning, water development, vegetation restoration, and habitat improvement. Of that figure, the agency spent $36.2 million, or 46 percent, on livestock grazing administration. In Fiscal Year 2015, the BLM was allocated $79 million for its rangeland management program. BLM offers livestock operators increased flexibility through outcome-based grazing authorizations.Outcome-Based Grazing demonstration projects map.BLM announces outcome-based grazing authorization demonstration projects for 2018.The Need for Flexibility: Exploring Innovation in a Public Land Grazing System.The BLM will consider the success of these projects when crafting guidance and best management practices for future grazing authorizations. In March 2018, BLM selected 11 demonstration projects in six states, with a variety of conditions and circumstances. The BLM and its partners will not only share the responsibility for reaching their mutual objectives of this project, but also for monitoring its success. These authorizations will prescribe a joint management approach, whereby both public and private lands are managed together with joint responsibility. Through this joint effort with authorization holders, the BLM hopes to more efficiently achieve identified resource, habitat and operational objectives. The program highlights BLM’s commitment to partnerships, which are vital to managing sustainable, working public lands. Decreasing the response time to changing field conditions is one of the primary goals of the demonstration project. This will better ensure their ability to manage ranching operations that are economically sustainable while also providing for healthy rangelands and high-quality wildlife habitat. The purpose of this project is to improve BLM’s management of grazing on public lands by offering livestock operators greater flexibility to more readily respond to changing on-the-ground conditions, such as drought or wildfire. It is designed to offer a more collaborative approach between the BLM and its partners within the livestock grazing community when issuing grazing authorizations.
In September 2017, the Bureau of Land Management’s Division of Rangeland Resources announced an initiative known as Outcome-Based Grazing Authorizations (OBGAs). Collaborative Action and Dispute Resolution.
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