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UI Poll: Ranchers Remain Popular

Item: Poll shows ranchers are getting more popular, not less/Rocky Barker, Idaho Statesman

More Info: The University of Idaho poll found that 89 percent of Idaho residents approve of livestock grazing as a legitimate practice on public lands, and 85 percent support it as an appropriate use along with hiking, camping, mountain biking, horseback riding, fishing and hunting. Most important to the Idaho Rangeland Resources Commission that sponsored the poll it shows that 86 percent of the 618 people chosen randomly want public lands grazing to continue.

Question: Does you family have ranching blood in its background?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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