2025年的调查发现,由于2014年的漏洞,西方在公共土地上的大部分放牧缺乏环境审查,使富人牧场主获得补贴,低于市场成本,同时损害生态系统。 A 2025 probe finds most Western grazing on public lands lacks environmental review due to a 2014 loophole, enabling wealthy ranchers to get subsidized, below-market fees while harming ecosystems.

2025年的一项调查显示,美国西部公共土地的牧场现在在土地管理局土地的75%上没有进行环境审查,而2013年为47%,由于2014年国会的漏洞允许自动续期. A 2025 investigation reveals that grazing on Western U.S. public lands now occurs without environmental review on about 75% of Bureau of Land Management land—up from 47% in 2013—due to a 2014 congressional loophole allowing automatic renewals. 这种缺乏监督的情况由于工作人员短缺和压低环境危害的压力而更加恶化,使得包括亿万富翁在内的大型经营者能够以不到市场利率15%的价格收取放牧费,2024年至少得到25亿美元的联邦补贴。 This lack of oversight, worsened by staff shortages and pressure to downplay environmental harm, has enabled large operators, including billionaires, to receive grazing fees at less than 15% of market rates, backed by at least $2.5 billion in federal subsidies in 2024. 尽管该计划的最初目标是防止过度放牧,但它现在给一小部分牧场主带来不成比例的惠益,同时造成生态损害,包括入侵物种扩散、生境退化和野火风险增加。 Despite the program’s original goal of preventing overgrazing, it now disproportionately benefits a small fraction of ranchers while contributing to ecological damage, including invasive species spread, habitat degradation, and increased wildfire risk.