Show OVER OVERGRAZING CRAZING W nt UTA UTAH DISCUSSED IN ARTICLE 1 Overgrazing In Utah has hai not on only 1 l lessened the States slates Ability to raise cattle but by denuding the soil has reduced 1 the water supply so that new Industry cannot come td to the state says Bernard DeVoto In the Ute August issue of Harpers Harper's Magazine The well known known native of Utah and writer on conservation conservation conservation conserva conserva- tion says the Forest Service D Desert Experimental Range flange has hu I proved that seriously Impaired desert rt range can be brought I back Into production simply by grazing fewer sheep on it The experimental plots t restored est 0 t e d themselves he said Stockmen use the plots DeVoto adds adis have learned that though they graze a third fewer sheep they make more money than they did by overgrazing At a smaller overhead they get more wool land and meat and they lose tat tar fewer lambs lamM The IM public and other stockmen stock men have yet to learn the lesson les Jes son DeVoto continues He lie says Utah Is caught between mill millstones stones between public edu a atlon lion and nd the arrest of its promise prom ise me between It may be public education and disaster So Is the whole west |