§580h Range Improvements From Appropriated Funds

Summary

Each year, from the grazing fees the Treasury gets from a national forest, Congress can make available at the end of that fiscal year an amount equal to 2 cents per animal-month for sheep and goats and 10 cents per animal-month for other kinds of livestock. The amount is figured from animal-months under permit on that forest during the calendar year when the fiscal year begins. The money stays available until it is spent and must be used on that same forest under rules set by the Secretary of Agriculture. It may pay for things like replanting (including buying seed), building or fixing fences, watering places, bridges, corrals and driveways, controlling range-destroying rodents, and removing poisonous plants and noxious weeds to protect the range.