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Show Grazind advisory board established in Colorado The Grand Junction District Dis-trict of the Bureau of Land Management will be one of the first western districts to establishing a Grazing Advisory Advis-ory Board, as provided for in the recently passed Federal Land Policy and Management Act. District Manager Tom Owen said that the new Board, which should not be confused with previous Multiple Use Advisory Boards, will advise and make recommendations to him on the use of range betterment funds and allotment allot-ment management plans for the public lands within the Grand Junction District. The Board will consist of five members elected for two-year terms, with two members from each district resource area and one at-large. According to Owen, a Grazing Graz-ing Advisory Board may be established in any BLM district dis-trict outside Alaska containing contain-ing at least 500,000 acres of public land subject to commercial com-mercial livestock grazing. A majority of the livestock permittees per-mittees and lessees must petition peti-tion the District Manager to form the Board. Owen said that a call for nominations will go out to all of the District's livestock permittees per-mittees within the next week, with election of Board members mem-bers to follow. To be eligible to serve, an individual must hold a lease or permit to graze commercial livestock on public pub-lic lands administered by the District. |