1. Loss of real working ranches with enough scale and diversification to be financially, ecologically, and socially viable.
   
   
2. Loss of large areas of agriculturally and ecologically important rangelands in Texas and other range states and regions.
   
   
3. Loss of life-supporting ecosystem goods and services that rangelands provide for the benefit of society.
   
   
4. Loss of a pastoral way of life that is simple, peaceful, self-fulfilling, and in touch with the natural world.
   
   
5. Loss of full-time working ranchers and cowboys, well-trained ranch horses and stock dogs, range-adapted livestock, and healthy range-aged grassfed beef.
   
   
6. Loss of healthy breeding populations of range-dependent wildlife -- such as pronghorn antelope, mule deer, white-tail deer, bobwhite quail, as well as many species of raptors and song birds.
   
   
7. Loss of rangeland ranching as an agriculturally important institution on the plains and prairies of North America.
   
   

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