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to administrative law judge Ramon Child’s ruling that the Nature Conservancy could not purchase and retire federal grazing permits.Heyrend works in the Great Basin Field Office of the conservancy, where in cooperation with the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, the conservancy put together a deal to buy the Cunningham Ranch in southeastern Utah.But like all ranches in that area, the package includes grazing permits on 250,000 acres of adjacent public lands.He found conservancy’s goals ’laudable’ but said that not using the permits subverts federal grazing policy.Heyrend doesn’t understand the decision.As she put it, ’We have always worked within the system to achieve our goals.Rather than simply calling for ’no moo in ’92’ and ’’cattle free by ’93,’ the Nature Conservancy has been willing to negotiate with ranchers to get cattle off public lands.The conservancy also planned to purchase the S&H Ranch, one of the largest working cattle ranches in eastern Utah, again intending to retire the grazing permits.In this case they would have paid $2 million for 5,560 acres of private land and 164,000 acres of access to grazing on state and federal lands.But the deal is off because the conservancy cannot retire the grazing permits.John Horning, a spokesman for the group, said, ’We just want to participate in the free market.We’re not trying to use legal tools to shut people down.The Idaho Watershed Project has had similar

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