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ND SB2246
Bill
Status
1/17/2025
Primary Sponsor
Tim Mathern
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AI Summary
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Appropriates $49,500 in one-time general fund money to the legislative council for the 2025-27 biennium to hire a consultant to study creating a regenerative grazing ranch in North Dakota
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Requires a legislative management study during 2025-26 to examine whether rangeland ecosystems can serve as a carbon dioxide sink and how regenerative grazing affects carbon fluxes
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Study must evaluate establishing a "grand ranch" facility modeled after Grand Sky and Grand Farm to benefit the state's energy and ranching industries
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Directs collection of scientific data on regenerative grazing effects on carbon dioxide, rangeland productivity, and ecosystem services, while creating a platform for rancher education
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Requires input from the agriculture commissioner, department of mineral resources, and ranching and energy industry stakeholders, with findings and recommendations reported to the 70th legislative assembly
Legislative Description
A BILL for an Act to provide an appropriation to the legislative council for the purpose of contracting with a consultant to study the feasibility and desirability of creating a regenerative grazing ranch in the state; and to provide for a legislative management study.
Last Action
Second reading, failed to pass, yeas 7 nays 39
2/3/2025