by Jimmy Tobias, High Country News. May 15, 2024 For additional perspective, read this week’s Kathy’s Notes. Melissa Shawcroft spent more than 30 years managing 250,000 acres of publicly owned grazing lands in the San Luis Valley of southern Colorado. A veteran employee of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Shawcroft retired earlier this month … Continue reading Federal grazing lands fail their checkup