Show SUPERVISION OF LANDS Mr Pinchot Advocates Legislation Legislation Legislation Legis Legis- lation Looking to Federal Federal Federal Fed Fed- eral Control I LARGE AREAS OVERGRAZED t Remedy Sl Suggested Is to All Apply I I to to c. c Open Range e the tim l Regulations nal i 9 Go Forest J Republican Special Service f Washington ton fay May Tn In a statement state state- ment mont just Issued by the the Bureau of r f I the go cr government ment Cor forester or ter tC GIfford Pinchot advocates le legislation the effect of which would be he to apply to 0 oil all I government gO lands bands fit f for gras graz r ing lug purposes purpose the same rigorous rules and anti regulations that now nov apply In forest forest forest for for- est reserves with wih r regard nr to grazing The statement outlines th the regula now nw which governing receive h are n-e n construed to be liberal and amid continues con con- J Va t t G Gra II Area Out lre tho time forest reserves reser hOevel how hO- 4 ever evel Is an ami area urea of or public land estimated estimated esti esti- mated matl at acres which ha has no rio present alue except for tOI grazing purposes On this land grazing I Is wholly unstrained by law Commercial Commer Commer- cial Interests gl great at and small smal have competed d for fOI Its use and anti tho the result resul has Im been abuse of tho the range Millions ranga of acres have been heen recklessly I overgrazed overgrazed over over- grazed and amid practically ruined In his last annual message the President ont onty says says- y t I Is probable that lint tho present grazing value of the open public rn range n nIs Is scarcely more than tha half hair what it II it- it once was or what It might easily bu again under careful careful regulation Unfair Advantage ll Some stockmen ha have t to tim tile tho exclusion ex cx- of others other possessed themselves themselves them them- selves elve of ot tho lie strategic positions that positions that that thatis i is is the lie lands hands controlling the tile streams springs and other watering es I Ian an and amid 1 IJ by this means have secured temporary tem toni control of the adjoining grazing gras graz lag ing lands lans Charges cs of entry I have 1 ltd c to lo litigation Great Gral areas have been heen illegally fenced Again gall stock owners owner notably sheep and cattie cattlemen cat cat- tie men tle-men have d defended their conflict- conflict ig ilig claims h by force farce of oC arms causing causing serious lo loss q o of property an and even oi e of or life le Time The Remedy Obviously such con conditions sho should hl be bo corrected D by law The rem remedy d would seem to bo bp to apply to th the open open public ri range ge the ady Y 0 Iu UW J l t c conclusion n is strengthened o nl D bj b. th the success attending Uio forest orest J I re reserve serve U II policy lC but also by he cJ t of dr fencing the public grazing lands lands Though housh illegal this timis fencing has In Inmost Inmost inmost most cases caes greatly Improved the tho condition con comi- of ot the area Care however how how- ho ever vcr must be taken takEn to avoid th time the application ap up- of sweeping sweeping- and amid ironclad re regulations no- no r. r to au an area so soa a vast t and amI to conditions so o different The Investigations investigations batons of or the Public Lands how Iho that lint Immediate application tion ton of oC an any rule to all grazing graz graz- ing imig lands hands alike regardless of ot local conditions or grazing values would IJ bo be disastrous and antl that Improvement must be sought through gradual in introduction In Into each locality of such uch form of oC control as Is specifically suited suited suit suit- ed to It It Pl Presidents President's View Il The statement then lien quotes another extract from the lie Presidents President's message a ar as follows The Tue best use of oC the public grazing lands requires the he careful e examination examina loll tion lon an and classification of these lands lans In lu order to give each settler setler land en- en ruSh rugh to support his family and nl no more While this work is being done arid and until the thc lands are settled the thc Government u should take Ink control of or ortho tho lie open range under reasonable re regulations regulations re- re suited to tn local needs fallowing followIng tallow follow ing log th the e general I Joll policy already in In successful sue suc operation on the lie forest noser re n reserve no- no serve ser s s. s |