Number: RS20453
Title: Federal Grazing Regulations: Public Lands Council v. Babbitt
Authors: Pamela Baldwin, American Law Division 
Abstract: New regulations on livestock grazing on lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management became effective August 21, 1995. Many aspects of the new regulations were challenged in Public Lands Council v. Babbitt. A federal district court upheld many of the regulations, but struck down four of them and enjoined their implementation. At the appellate level, only the new regulation allowing conservation use to the exclusion of livestock grazing for the full term of a permit was held invalid. In a unanimous opinion, the Supreme Court on May 15, 2000, upheld the remaining regulations.
Pages: 6
Date: Updated November 20, 2003