"To be honest with you, I think our way of life is pretty much going to be over in 10 years"---Barry Sorensen, Idaho Cattle Racher.................................Years-long drought has pummeled millions of acres of federal range land in the West into dust, leaving a devastating swath from the Rockies to the Pacific.................Add to that climate change, invasive plants and wildfire seasons that are longer and more severe, and conditions have reached a breaking point in many Western regions. The land can no longer support both livestock and wildlife

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Grazing on
 federal land 
under threat
 because of
 drought