Show v HALF i TILT THE FOREST NOT FIT FOR GRAZING GHI SAYS CHAPLINE F Fully Ily half haIr of or the acres of forest land In Iu the United States is ds not suitable for grazing live stock and the other half haIr should be he grazed only after full fun precautions are taken to protect the young tree gr growth from l injury says VR W W. R R. R C Chapline grazing e expert pert at the recent forest research conference of the service of or the United States department department department de de- de- de of or agriculture Some worth of oC meat and wool are produced I leach each each year froni from the herds of cattle and anel sheep that graze on the national forests This must must therefore b be regarded as S a highly important economic use of the tho national national national na na- forests although of course itis It Itis is is' is secondary to Grazing investigations are aie needed to work out better and more conservative conservative conservative con con- nH methods method's o s o of handling grazing grazIng grazing graz graz- ing on ou two wo Ih hundred lJ and 4 forty millIon million million mill mill- ion acres of or woodland pasture and andover andover andover over six hundred millions millions' o of semiarid semi semi- arid arld cattle and sheep range in the west according to to Chapline who vho as asserts asserts as- as that better 1 range management Is needed neede not lot only to pres preserve r e the forage plants t ts is front from injury but bilt to protect protect pro youn young trees es and Uld to lessen ero- ero from fronti triumphing and overgrazing ing inS 1 0 |