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Rangeland Resources Commission reports steady assessments, warns grant funding on hold and highlights education and tech pilots
Summary
Gretchen Hyde, executive director of the Idaho Rangeland Resources Commission, told the Senate Agricultural Affairs Committee that assessment revenue is steady but that recent federal grant agreements are on hold, threatening education programs the commission runs across Idaho’s roughly 20 million acres of rangeland.
Gretchen Hyde, executive director of the Idaho Rangeland Resources Commission, briefed the Senate Agricultural Affairs Committee on the commission’s programs, funding and recent outreach efforts. Hyde said the commission was created in 1994 to help the public understand grazing on predominantly public lands and that its funding comes primarily from refundable assessments tied to state and federal grazing allotments and from a specialty "On the Range" license plate.
Hyde told senators the commission’s net assessment revenue has averaged about $200,000 per year and that the commission receives assessments of 10 cents per Animal Unit Month (AUM) on public grazing allotments and 2 cents per dry grazed private acre — the…
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