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Show Stockmen Urge Deer Kill in 1945 : At Richfield Meet i The annual one day convention ' of the Fish Lake Forest Cattle as-1 as-1 sociation was held at Richfield, U-' U-' tali, on March 24, it is announced i by Blaine Betenson. Forest Supe-r-( visor. It was explained that the i membership of the combined Fo-i Fo-i rest Cattle association is made up t of representatives of the 32 local t community associations who hold ? permits to graze cattle and horses i on the various range allotments of the Fishlake Forest. Mr. C. A. Mattson. president of ) the association conducted the i meeting. In his opening remarks he i summarized some of the problems i confronting the cattlemen. He sta-' sta-' ted that progress had been made ' during the past few years to re-! re-! duce the big game on the over-i over-i grazed forest ranges to nearer the . proper grazing capacity, but he i stressed that further reductions are necessary on some areas in order to prevent further damage to the . range and soil resources. He cited past reductions that have been : made on both cattle and sheep permits for range protection purposes, pur-poses, and the effects decreased I revenue is having on the economic welfare of communities and local governmental units. He urged that further protection reductions on livestock permits be postponed until un-til range damage , on account of grazing by big game is brought under full control. Mr. C. E. Favre assistant reginal forester, chief of grazing in region four, with headquarters at Ogden, said the objectives in management of National Forest ranges are prevention pre-vention of range deterioration and production for current use of maximum max-imum yields of forage year after year, and to correlate grazing use with the use of other forest resources, re-sources, particularly with soil and watershed conditions. Efficient range management promotes a stable and productive livestock industry. in-dustry. New ten year perimts will be granted beginning with the season sea-son of 1946, but for no more livestock live-stock than the proper grazing capacity ca-pacity of the individual range allotments. al-lotments. Where big game animals : are responsible for damage further 1 control of these animals will also : be necessary Mr. Favre stated. Forest Supervisor Bentenson out- liner forest objectives in reaching grazing capacity on overgrazed al- ; ilotments by 1946. He explaiflen the need for much more range improvement improve-ment work including range fences, water developments, rodent control con-trol and range reseeding as one important means of increasing grazing gra-zing capacity of the various range allotments. He said some 4,000 acres ac-res on the forest had been sucess-fullly sucess-fullly reseeded the past 3 pears, and that the grazing capacity had been increased for ten to 12 times over the capacity before reseeding. reseed-ing. He urged that stockmen increase in-crease their efforts to do more re-seeding re-seeding on private range land. Mr Don. Kenney of the state department de-partment of agriculture, explained the problems of brand inspection work of his department. He urged stockmen to cooperate in the prevention pre-vention of livestock theft. Pinch hitting for Mr. C. L. Montgomery, Mont-gomery, president of the Utah Cattle Cat-tle and Horse Growers association, Mr. Joseph Finlinson, vice-president, represented the State Association Associ-ation at the meeting. He stated the State Association was opposed to further reductions in cattle permits. per-mits. He thought the problem on overgrazed forest allotments could be overcome by the proposed pro- . gram for further range improve- ments, including extensive range I reseeding. Mr. C. A. Matsson of Richfield; i John Nielson, Salina; and Dr. L. A. i Poulson, Richfield, were respectively respective-ly re-elected to serve another year as president, vice-president and secretary - treasurer. Mr. Byron Hawley of Richfield was re-elected , to represent the Cattlemen of the Fishlake Forest on the State Advisory Ad-visory Board Committee. |
