BLM, Nevada ranchers strike deal to resume livestock grazing

BATTLE MOUNTAIN — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has reached an agreement in a year-old grazing dispute with northern Nevada ranchers that allows them to return some cattle to federal rangeland. BLM officials say the new settlement agreement is in effect, now that an administrative law judge has dismissed all pending appeals challenging the contentious closure last year of an allotment near Battle Mountain, about 200 miles northeast of Reno. The deal allows grazing to resume under specifi