| Show fROM MONDEL i ims HIS ms STAND GRAZ GRAZING GRAZING ING ON FOREST RESERVES 4 Claims to Have Been Misrepresented as to the Purpose of f a l On Secretary Special to Th The Herald Ch Cheyenne y Wyo Jan 2 CO gressman Mondell of Wyoming has bas written a letter to a number of oC the state papers in which he be denies deni as u false die tue report sent ent out from Washington W on OIl Dec Dee 14 to the Salt S t Lake Tribune which stated that Mr Wan Warren and had called upon S See c rotary Hitchcock and recommended that l permits be issued i to graze k iU sheep on for forest est eat reserves Mr tIr Mondell says he called on the secretary s at the time but his h in interview interview wa was with relation to ei Indian reser reservations In his h letter Mr Mondell takes the following stand with reference to the grazing g of steep sheep on forest reserves re The entire question of grazing on for fOl forest est eat reserves lTee is one oe that should be e passed upon and settled by the tOO interior depart department c fleet ment after careful and Ad thorough Invest investigation gation gatlon and ami inquiry aa as to the conditions existing on each and every reserve re No general rule can OP or should be laid down There la Is no JW doubt reserves from Which Sheep should be b entirely excluded over which they were Wae never neve grazed as for in instance Instance I Istance stance the Teton and Yellowstone Na Nn National National park puk reserves in Wyoming There are other reserves which have bave been more or less grazed over by sheep in the past pUt where the grazing of sheep heep under roper proper restrictions is beneficial rather titan injurious Some portions of or reserves may ma quite properly be grazed where it would not be proper to graze other portions It is almost I most universally conceded d by The owners of nocks flocks as well as others that alt all grazing on reserves les rell may quite property prop ty be under certain reg res regulations regulations as 88 to the number allowed sHowed to graze districts in widen which they may graze etc The rhe opposition to grazing gassing in forest reserves is by no means made by b those opposed to sn snoop sheep ep grazing alone as a in some parts of the country the department b la dl cu lr the advisability of ot greatly y if it not entirely e tirel prohibiting grazing by ani ant animate mate main of all U kinds What Is to needed is 18 a 8 commonsense poI pol policy icy Ic which will take into consideration past va uses uaea of the reserves the wishes of the people living in the vicinity of f the re reserves reserves serves erve character of the soil Boil and aad kind of or timber Umber whether deciduous or evergreen and the effect of past grazing A know knowl knowledge edge of or bese hese facts tact with relation rel to each reserve iH enable the department to tomake tomake tomake make l that are best t calculated to produce on santa each h reserve the conditions necessary 11 to the results for which the reserves are established A narrow policy which blindly prohibits prohibIts its the grazing of sheep under any dr clr or to the most limited extent on any 11 land which has bas been or may be be included In a forest reserve without in investigation of the local conditions is a policy polley of such apparent and nest stupendous Imbecility That n tt cannot otherwise e than fail whereas if after atte investigation tion and study of the conditions conditio in any reserve by those these t charged with that duty it shall be decided that thoat grazing by any particular kind of domestic ani aol animals mats mata greatly injures the growth of the forest rort for and the conservation of Or needed waters I am satisfied tied public sentiment would uphold a 1 decision to that effect e |
