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Show Range Conditions Show Improvement ! Range conditions on the national na-tional land reserve, administered by the Bureau of Land Management, Manage-ment, continued to improve during dur-ing April, particularly in the northern part of the State. However, How-ever, soil moisture conditions deteriorated due to lack of precipitation preci-pitation in the desert and low lying areas of the southern part of Utah. Livestock leaving the winter ranges were in generally good condition, stockmen reporting report-ing that the past season had been one of the better years since 1950. Growth on annual grasses has been particularly luxuriant and this will result in serious fire hazard conditions when this annual an-nual growth matures and dries up as the summer season comes on. Range forage jn the higher elevations continued to improve with warming weather. Prospects for spring and summer forage are above average in most areas. The stock water situation continued con-tinued favorable as a result of runoff from snow melt and spring storms. v |