  This Year's Public Land Grazing Fee a Bargain, Continuing a
30-Year Trend  Cattle grazing on the Nevada range | Photo:
ncreedplayer/Flickr/Creative Commons License  A dollar thirty
five doesn't buy a whole lot of grub these days. You can get a
small fast food meal if you order from the place's dollar menu,
and you might be able to find a gas station sandwich if you shop
around. Feeding your domesticated animals isn't a whole lot
cheaper: Two cans of cat or dog food will come in under $1.35,
three cans if you buy in bulk.  But if you're trying to feed
livestock on public lands, maintained and administered at
taxpayer expense, there's good news: $1.35 will still buy you a
month's worth of food for your critters. Quite a bargain.
That's the price the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S.
Forest Service have announced for their grazing fees in 2014,
and it hasn't risen in the past eight years. In fact, it's been
largely unchanged since 1978.  Story Continues Below Support
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