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A federally-run sheep experiment facility in Idaho long targeted by environmental groups will start grazing sheep again in the Centennial Mountains of Idaho and Montana.

Federal land managers have designated 11 demonstration projects in six Western states in a bid to create more flexibility for grazing livestock on public range.

The state's top elected officials have put off a possible increase in grazing fees on state lands due to potential litigation.

A federal court has blocked thousands of domestic sheep from being released to graze in eastern Idaho where environmental groups say they jeopardize a small herd of bighorn sheep with deadly viruses.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Federal officials have released a cattle grazing plan for central Idaho's Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve that immediately came under fire from an environmental group.

ARCO, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho group wants state lawmakers to sign off on its efforts to get national park status for a national monument near Arco.

SHOSHONE, Idaho (KLIX) The Craters of the Moon National Monument will host a series of open houses on their plans for grazing in the area.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Federal officials are taking public comments on a draft environmental analysis for grazing alternatives at a national monument in south-central Idaho.

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Gov. Brian Sandoval is urging the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to reconsider livestock grazing restrictions in northeast Nevada, saying that may now be unwarranted given a wet winter that has drought conditions on the mend.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Federal land managers have agreed to restore information about grazing allotments not meeting rangeland health standards in 13 western states after a public lands advocacy group complained about the omission.

RENO, Nev. (AP) — A federal appeals court is siding with the U.S. government in a decades-old legal battle over livestock grazing rights in Nevada.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — On-again, off-again efforts to delay Payette National Forest grazing closures are off again. U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson of Idaho on Wednesday pulled a measure meant to keep 7,700 acres open to domestic sheep for another year...

The Times News is reporting today that a judge has overturned a ban on grazing permits in the Jarbidge Resource area.

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A federal judge dealt another setback to the J.R. Simplot Co. and other ranchers by reaffirming his late-February decision to halt grazing on 17 Bureau of Land Management allotments covering some 450,000 acres in southern Idaho.