1.   And while grazing fees have inched upward, ranchers continue to get bargain-basement grass on federal lands.

2.   At the same time, Interior Secretary Babbitt backed down from a plan to increase grazing fees for public lands, leaving the issue to the Republicans.

3.   Babbitt proposes that Congress finance burning on federal lands with money from timber sales and grazing fees.

4.   A proposal to raise public grazing fees for large ranchers cleared a hurdle in the Senate Tuesday.

5.   But the Clinton administration also tried to hike grazing fees, where public sympathies still go out to ranchers as symbols of rugged American individualism.

6.   Commissioner Hansen has discouraged ranchers from paying federal grazing fees to the county.

7.   Federal grazing fees under this forage bill formula remain well below state and private grazing fees schedules.

8.   From the start of the Clinton administration, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt has tried to raise grazing fees.

9.   He has urged ranchers to stop paying grazing fees to federal agencies and suggested that Chelan County hold salvage sales of burned timber on national forest land.

10.   He hoped to spearhead legislation to increase grazing fees for ranchers and to stop miners from ravaging federal lands for token fees.