‘Til the Cows Come Home: Local Youth Program Aids in Resolution for Dispute Between Federal Agency and Cattlemen’s Association
A dispute between a local Cattlemen’s Association and a federal agency has been mitigated by students — more specifically, a summer youth work program called the Clearwater Basin Youth Conservation Corps. “Cows go where cows go,” says the Mason Butte Cattlemen’s Association President Roy Busch, as he describes the longstanding issues of free-range cattle roaming onto recreational land managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) in Ahsahka, Idaho, near the Dworshak Dam. “They have a fence line that they put in back when they constructed the dam in the ‘70s, and for the last few years they haven’t…