Show OVER OVERGRAZING GR REDUCING fORAGE IN KAIBAB FOREST Now Only Ten Per Cent of Former Years Aspen Forests In Danger of Elimination Over Oer Supply of Deer for Amount A Amount A A- mount of Forage orn c Produced ii 1 The Kaibab Investigation committee which recently spent some time traveling traveling travel travel- ing through the forest from end to end in a close stu study of the game and range conditions there report that the area is producing not more than 10 per cent of the available nutritious nutritious nu nu- forage that it once produced The committee also reports that 1 If overgrazing continues the aspen forest type will ultimately disappear from the i Kaibab plateau It reports report that there is practically no aspen reproduction there and that under present range conditions reproduction is virtually Impossible Game preservationists to be consistent consistent consist consist- ent should oppose overgrazing O by game gome i as as they have opposed overgrazing o by sheep and cattle but the principal administrative difficulties difficulties ties in the Kaibab seem m to have grown out of the fact that the game belongs to the states and the forest range on which the game subsists belongs to the nation The state fish and game de department department de de- is charged primarily with the protection of the game and the primary duty of the forest service Is to protect me the forests against injury This situation exists wherever there are Continued on Page Three FORAGE IN IS KAI KAIBAB AB FOREST FonEST OVER O GRAZING REDUCING Continued From Page One national forests Inhabited by game The committee reports that there exists a most urgent need for reducing the present number of deer In the Kaibab area to a point much below the present present- limited carrying capacity of or the range and maintaining the deer herd at such a level until such time as the various species of shrubs and young oung trees upon which the deer de depend depend depend de- de pend for browse are reestablished careful management management management manage manage- Thereafter by game ment the deer may be permitted to Increase to such numbers as the natural al food supply may sustain During this necessary period of reestablishment reestablishment reestablish reestablish- ment It Is also recommended that all forms of natural wild animal life other othi oth oth- er lr than deer be left undisturbed ex except except except ex- ex i where serious damage to private I property Is being done and that suspension suspension suspension sus sus- pension of federal and state predatory ry animal killing be bo continued and also that the area should be closed to private private private vate trapping and hunting of flesh- flesh eating animals until adequate annual reductions of deer are made The Investigating committee Included ed some of the most widely l known thinkers and leaders on these subjects I In the nation |