A ruling that prohibits Grant County ranchers from turning their cows out near steelhead streams could cost rural Oregon jobs and money.
A ruling that prohibits Grant County ranchers from turning their cows out near steelhead streams could cost rural Oregon jobs and money.
The long-standing conflict pits ranching rights against fish habitat.
The latest decision in a years-long battle over the effects of grazing on stream habitat bans cows on 16 percent of the 1.7 million-acre forest, which has one the largest grazing programs of any forest in the Pacific Northwest.
The ban starts in June and would affect almost 4,000 mother cows and their annual calf crop valued at $2.8 million, ranchers and forest officials said.
Read more at OregonLive.com.
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