| Show BilL BIL TO PROTECT RANGE lANDS SIGNED President Approves Measure 1 to Control Grazing on PublIc Domain PresIdent Roosevelt on Thursday signed the TaYlor bill which gives the secretary of the interior control over the public domain in an effort to con con- conserve conserve serve the grazing lands landsI I The measure which creates grazing districts WIthin an aggregate of I 80 acres vas as careful a approved proved by the president after a careful study of its constitutionality In sIgning the bill Ml Mi Roosevelt The 4 The passage of this act marks the culmination of years of efforts to ob- ob tam tam from congress express authority for federal regulation of grazing on the public domain in the interest of national conservatIon and of the live Jive livestock stock industry It authorIzes the secretary of the interior to provide for the protection orderly use ana an regulations of the public ranges and to create grazing districts with an aggregate area of not more than 80 acres It confers broad powers n the see sec secretary of the interior to do aU all things necessary for the preservation of these ranges including amongst other pow pow- powers powers ers the right to specify from time to time the number of livestock which may graze within such districts and the season when they shall be permit permit- permitted ted to do so The authority to exercISe these ts is carefully against impairment by states or local action Creation of a grazing district by the of lC the interior and promulgatIOn gatIOn of rules and regulations re- re respecting It will supersede state regu- regu regulations lations of grazing on that part of the public domain such dl districts Water I development soil soU erosion work ork and the general ement ot o such lands are pro fr in the act Local resIdents settlers and owners of land and water ho cho have been us- us using using ing a public range range- In the past are given a preference by bf of the act to the use of l land nd within such dis- dis districts districts when placed under federal regu- regu regulations lations so long as they with the rules and regulatIons of the see sec secretary of the interior The The act permits private persons owning land within a district to make exchanges for federally owned land outsIde a grazing district If and when the secretary of the interior finds it to be m in the best public interest 4 The federal government by enact enact- enactIng Ing thIs law has taken a great for for- forward forward ward step In the interest of bon tion whIch WIll prove of benefit not only to those engaged in the livestock industry but also to the nation as a whole |
