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Show NEED NCED FOR GRAZINGREGULATION GRAZING GRAZINGREGULATION GRAZINGIi IiREGULATION REGULATION CITED CITEDBY CITEDBY CITEDBY Ii BY "U U " " PHOFESSORS P"ROFESSOR PROFESSOR PROFESSORS PHOFESSORSSalt PROFESSORSSalt " areI I Salt Lake Clty-Uness Clty Uness City--Unaess City Unaess City - - - Unless ) steps are aretaken aretaken aretaken taken immediately to control grazing grazingon F " Fon on Utah deserts , , Utah will wllI be subject subjectto i ito to recurrent reCUl'rent reCUlrent ' sand and dust storms , ac- ac acI according according ac according - - I cording to University Un1ersIty Un1\ Un1 Unn \ ersIty of Utah pro professors professors professors fessors 1 1Dr fessorsDr Dr Frederick J . . Pack Pact ( , " , , professor of ofgeology ofgeology i . geology at the state university , . gave gavewill gavewill I IwIll ( wIll give ) a lecture m Kingsbury haIl hall hallWednesday hallWednesday I Wednesda3 IWednesda3 Wednesday ' , May 1 , on the subject haIlI : I "Will Will "W1l1 W1l1 " dust storms e\ e e eventually eentually \ entually entuaily make makeWestern makeWestern makeWestern Western America uninhabitable9 uninhabitable ? " " I I"We "We We " are faced with , one me of the most mosttragic mostI mosttragic mosttragic tragic pages in m history , " Di Dt ' * Pack mostI saId saIdin saidin saidin I in an Interview , "and and " unless steps aretaken are aretaken aretaken taken immediately to remedy the thedamage thedamage thedamage damage done n past years . , In 11\ 11 11mg licmg \ ing mg con conditions con-/ con condltions - . / J Jditons ditions dltions ditons ( in Western America Amel'lca Amellca ' will be- be become become be become - come increasingly increasmgly difficult and un Un- Unattractive unattractive . - attractive " Although more damage has been beendone beendone beendone done since the recent drouth . , Dr . Packdoes Pack Packdoes Packdoes does not believe beUeve that excessive rams rains ramswIll rainswill ramswill wIll remedy the situation , since smCe over over- overI overgrazmgth overgrazingth overgrazing - I grazmg-th grazmg th grazing-th grazing grazing - th real c cause cause se of this condi condi- conditionstill condition - . . - tion-stIll tion stIll tion - - still remainsProfound remains ) . Profound remainsI changes in m desert vegeta-1tion vegeta 1tion vegeta- vegeta vegetahon - I hon tion are noted by Dr Walter P Cot- Cot Cottam Cottam Cot-tam Cot tam - tam , , professor of botany at the Uni Unl- Unl UnlI Unlverslty Uni- Uni University University - - I versity verslty of Utah During Durmg the past 'Past ' t\\ t t0 two tI tsummers twosummers t\\osummers t osummers \ \ 0 summers Dr Cottam has directed a astud3 astudy astudy I stud3 study ' of the Utah deseit desert desel t tor for the U S SForest 'Forest Forest ' Forest service , and his report wIll willsoon willsoon ' ' soon be published publ1shed publ1shedIn publishedin in a bulletin buIletin , "Desert Desert "DesertTypes "DesertTypes DesertTypes " Types and Conditions of Heavily HeavilyGrazed HeavilyGrazed I Grazed Valleys VaIleys of the Utah Desert " . "Our Our " study showed sno\\ed sno ed \ that the average averagesurface I surface of the ground covered on the thedeserts thedeserts thedeserts 1 deserts is about three per cent : , " ' DrCottam Dr I ICottam ICottam Cottam said "We We " also found that the theI themore themore I more palatable plants were old and on onthe onthe onthe ' the decline , and the less 'Palatable Palatable 'PalatableI 'Palatableplants ' "palatableplants palatableplants " I , nUIn.Jerous erous plants were younger and more nUIn.J/ nUIn.J num nunt numerous ; . { . / I a a"Russian " "Russian Russian " thistle , acomparatively a acompaiativelynew compalatIvely -comparatively comparatively -compaiativelynew compaiativelynew - . compalatIvelynew comparativelynew new plant in Utah , is compalatIvelyI now gainingground gammg gaining gammgground gainingground I ground rapidly , " Dr Cottam contin contm- contm contin- contmI contmued continued continued - - I ued "Since Since "Smce Smce " the Russian thistle is an anannual anannual anannual annual plant , which fails falls to come up 1in upIn 1 in thejdesert years of adverse conditions , the thedesert thedesert desert is becoming becommg more and morebarren morE morebarren ' barren If unregulated unregulated- unregulatedgrazmg ' - " grazmg grazing grazing can con I tmues tinues continues it is only a question of time timeuntIl timeuntil timeuntil sandyand untIl Utah's Utahs ' deserts will become sandy . and barren " |