§580h Range Improvements From Appropriated Funds

Summary

Congress can use part of the grazing fees collected from a national forest to pay for range work. At the end of each fiscal year, an amount equal to 2 cents per animal-month for sheep and goats and 10 cents per animal-month for other livestock that grazed there under permit during the calendar year that began the fiscal year may be appropriated from those fees. The money stays available until spent and must be used on that same forest under rules set by the Secretary of Agriculture for things like replanting (including seed), building and keeping fences and watering places and other needed range structures, controlling rodents that harm the range, and removing poisonous plants and noxious weeds to protect or improve the range.