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Judge grants E. Ore. ranchers reprieve on grazing

The Columbian
Published: March 18, 2011, 12:00am

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge has granted a temporary reprieve to some eastern Oregon ranching families who expected to see their cattle banned from federal grazing allotments this summer on the Malheur National Forest.

The Oregonian reports that U.S. District Judge Ancer Haggerty this week modified a December ruling designed to protect threatened Middle Columbia River steelhead in the John Day River.

The judge now will allow 15 ranchers to turn out mother cows and their calves on the grazing allotments in June.

Rancher Ken Holliday of John Day welcomed the modified ruling. But he said it won’t help four of the original 19 ranchers who expected to have 4,000 cattle prohibited from grazing on roughly 283,000 acres of the national forest.

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Information from: The Oregonian, http://www.oregonlive.com

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