The National Forest Service, from which many ranchers rent grazing land, may require them to graze fewer cattle, in order to encourage native grasses and wildlife.
Some groups inimical to the rent rise are using the Sawtooth issue in a bid to stall the Forest Service's whole reassessment plan, even though its officials say that in most of the areas it supervises rents will need to go up much less than in the Sawtooths.