Show I UTTERS Dear Sam Sam I r- r have hail had so many in- in quirles In regard to my letter letter letter let- let ter in your YO p paper per of Sept 8 1 I will try to answer a few of f the most pertinent questions ques ques- and nd problems First I would like to quote from Irom the Grazing Regulations Regula Regula- for the National Land Reserve circular No 2075 which Is a breakdown of the Taylor Law and sots sets forth the law Jaw In hi s such ch fashion that the B M officials can can better iise ISe it First section BasIc Basic DasIc Ba Da- sIc sic Policy and Plan of Administration Ad mb ministration tIon a Purposes general requirements Graz- Graz Jag districts will b be e administered administered st t tp conserve and regulate regulate reg reg- t the he e public grazing lands lands to the livestock livestock live live- stock industry dependent upon upon upon up up- on them and In n aid thereof to 1 1 promote the proper use of pf the privately controlled lands and waters vaters dependent upon those public grazing lands ands In In furtherance of these bese objectives grazing privileges pd will be e granted with witha a view to the protection of those livestock operations that hat pre ore recognized as es- es and rind continuing ana which normally involve the substantial use of the public range ange In a regular continuing continuing contin contin- manner each year To promote the highest use of I the public lands within grazing gra gro I Izing zing districts which have been or hereafter are arc established possession or control pf ct sufficient land or water to Insure a year-round year op op- ration atlon for a certain nUrn ber Ier er V t livestock in connee tion with the use o of 01 the Federal Fed eral range will be bo required of all users As All you can see the tho only reason for tor or the Taylor Law was conservation of ot our resources resources re re- ro- ro sources stabilization of the livestock Industry and protection pro pro- te tion of ot private lands and waters dependent on these public lands I cant can't visualize destroying destroy destroy- ing not only one but whole communities of livestock operations op and using stabilization in any slight measure Now Kow I would like to jump to section Grazing District Advisory Boards Under 0 e Functions Functions Hons and Duties of ot District Advisers i limitations DIstrIct District District Dis DIs- Advisers shall advise or make recommendations on the following matters one lof of these is 3 The grazing capacity of the Federal range range ran ran- ge in the cU district Under the guise of range survey is where al alL a of our great difficulty lies A range survey is Is' merely an Inventory Inventory inventory tory of the available feed Iced to be used In any anyone one particular particular particular par par- season and is as old as the livestock industry since e the grazer must in- in hs h.'s range before h he moves stock onto it from another area to what he has lias an and how long it will last a given number water conditions and everything every every- thing tIming that will support his livestock for the length of time that he determines is available Now In the hundreds of 01 years ears past if it the livestock man was not capable of making making ma ma- king an almost correct In Inventory Inventory In In- or survey If It you wish ish he ho could very easily have gone broke in one season season sea sea- son Eon and another thing that he po e had to do was determine how much of at this commodity commod ity he could use and ami have good range the next year and for fOl many years rs following follow tollow ing Otherwise he would again gone out of ot business bus iness mess and In III this behalf there Is no better qualified man mall to make a range survey survey sur sur- vey voy than the tho member o of the District Advisory hoard Board I Imn Imagine lne this Is the main rea rca on on the men who wrote I he the Taylor Act Included this function as one of his du duo du- du ties tics Further a range survey is only applicable for that season or the seasons that are l identical A range survey survey sur sur- vey can be made of an area arro I where there seems to be nothing nothing nothing no no- thing on It following a few months of drought and then we have some good precipitation tation and In three months the range is not able And on th the other hand handa a range survey can be made In a Q good year ear and amid a few months of drought will reduce re re- re duce duco It to nothing and It ismy ismy is ismy my b belief lIef that there is no such thing as a range man man- nan nan- manual or tango Range management Instructions that recognizes the survey as anything but a yardstick and ran range e utilization checks s should be taken over a period per per- lad iod of years to determine the correctness of the first find find- ings It seems to be the policy i lit If r the department today to tomake tomake tomake make a range survey preferably preferably on a 11 dry year and then attempt to cut the the range to that stocking from then on out And when used in this capacity it is the danger weapon that can ran and andis andis is destroying old line livestock livestock livestock live live- stock setups that In many I cases eases been heen in one family from the grandfather to the present generation In the years that the range is not good the livestock man makes mak mal es Cs other arrangements buyIng buyIng buying buy- buy Ing extra feed and what have you This is exactly the same as the beetle eating eat eat- ing lag him th tha that that is the thea a res washes out and he is not able to raise mise his customary amount of forage for for- age But Dut there Isn't anyone standing on his doorstep tell- tell II V t lt t is th tle ast and he 1 will ha hato have to forever after raise no nd nomore more crop than that I guess guess the only reason there isn't is because bemuse he owns that partIcular particular particular par par- ti act of land and this is not an unreasonable com corn parison It Is exactly what I Is happening I And again remember a range survey and I do not care rore how or under what pro procedure It is made is filled with guesswork estimates and wonderment and then when the forage factor Is applied to determine the amount amount amount am am- of livestock to be grazed grazed grazed graz graz- ed each acre It is just as stable as a a pack mule with the load turned under his belly Although there has to be bea a range ronge survey as pointed cut out before particularly by bythe bythe bythe the man who Is using the range this is a means of protecting or stabilizing the livestock lI industry and atthe at atthe atthe the same time conserving our resources but not as a a. means of destroying a whole Industry or one or two In In- as the case cise may be If It you Oll businessmen in making malting an inventory of your stores were told that because be cause your Inventory happened hap to be down at that particular time that the next year or as as many years yeal's afterward afterward af af- af- af as it suited l the whim of ot some individual you would not be able tostock tostock to tostock stock your shelves past the point that they were at nt that time you naturally would have to leave that much of ot your our st store re vacant and useless use less nit although hough you OU are go ing to pay the tho same amount of tax on It and you Ou are going go ing to pay the same wages wage to your Our employees And after attel at af ter tel struggling in this fashion fash Sash ion Jon a n snort short time you'll ei either et el ther starve to death or goon goon go goon on government pension This is exactly what the livestock live Ue stock man Is being forced to todo todo do And when they put enough en en- ough out put of I think probably half halt of your store Is all aU that you will need stocked Let Letus us not lose tose sight of ot all aU of ot our tax structure In our effort et ef fort a of reaching for the quick dollar brought In Jn by tourists and but rather an Increase or ot everything that we have to da day J. 3 J. J I D. D DILLARD |