"Stan Kroenke doesn't need federal help to make a business flourish.He is worth an estimated $20 billion, a fortune that has allowed him to become one of America's largest property owners and afforded him stakes in storied sports franchises, including the Denver Nuggets and England's Arsenal soccer club."
"As owner of the Winecup Gamble Ranch, which sprawls across grasslands, streams and a mountain range east of Elko, Nevada, Kroenke is entitled to graze his cattle on public lands for less than 15% of the fees he would pay on private land."
"The public-lands grazing program, formalized in the 1930s to contain the rampant overgrazing that contributed to the Dust Bowl, has grown to serve operations including billionaire hobby ranchers, mining companies, utilities and large corporate outfits, providing benefits unimagined by its founding law."
"President Donald Trump's administration plans to make the program even more generous - pushing to open even more of the 240 million acres of Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service grazing land to livestock while reducing oversight of the environmental damage."
Stan Kroenke is worth an estimated $20 billion and owns major sports franchises and extensive property. Kroenke's Winecup Gamble Ranch east of Elko, Nevada, spans grasslands, streams and a mountain range and qualifies to graze cattle on public lands for less than 15% of private-land fees. The public-lands grazing program originated in the 1930s to curb overgrazing and now serves billionaire hobby ranchers, mining companies, utilities and large corporate outfits. Congress raised grazing fees in the late 1970s, but fees have barely budged in decades. The Trump administration proposes expanding grazing across 240 million acres and reducing environmental oversight.
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