Mike Hudak, director of Public Lands Without Livestock (mikehudak.com/PLWL), draws upon passages from his book Western Turf Wars: The Politics of Public Lands Ranching (westernturfwars.com) to illustrate how public lands ranchers use the political system to achieve land management that benefits their profits in the short term, but that degrades America's natural resources in the long term. Contact Info: [email protected]