{"id":523,"date":"2006-06-15T10:28:52","date_gmt":"2006-06-15T10:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=516"},"modified":"2006-06-15T10:28:52","modified_gmt":"2006-06-15T10:28:52","slug":"61406","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=523","title":{"rendered":"6\/14\/06"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I continue with work on updating our position paper on <strong>the environment<\/strong>&#8230;  According to the environmental group Green Scissors (Cutting Wasteful and Environmentally Harmful Spending), cattle grazing in the West has become a monumental problem that is polluting tremendous amounts of water, eroding all kinds of topsoil, killing fish, displacing wildlife and destroying more vegetation than any other land use&#8230;  On a stop in Rawlins, Wyoming, we went to the Bureau of Land Management there to investigate this.  One representative there said the &#8220;ideal solution&#8221; would be not to lease any more federal land to ranchers so the rangeland could start to heal.  However, this is a &#8220;political football&#8221; she said, because the ranchers comprise such a powerful lobby&#8230;  Our administration would hold the stance that it&#8217;s time to stop playing &#8216;political football,&#8217; but rather it&#8217;s time to start playing &#8216;hardball&#8217; for programs intended to save the environment.  Good environmental stewardship practices would <em>demand<\/em> this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I continue with work on updating our position paper on the environment&#8230; According to the environmental group Green Scissors (Cutting Wasteful and Environmentally Harmful Spending), cattle grazing in the West has become a monumental problem that is polluting tremendous amounts <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=523\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}