| Show pi Need For Grazing Regulation Cited By U Professors Unless steps are taken to control grazing on Utah deserts Utah will be Bu subject to recurrent sand and dust storms stonna according to University o of Utah professors Dr Frederick J. J Pack professor sor of geology at the state university university sity gave a lecture In KIngsbury hall Wednesday May 1 on the subject Will wm dust storms eventually eventually event event- make malte Western America un inhabitable I We are aro faced with one of the tho tragic in most pages history Dr Pack said in an interview and land unless steps are taken immediately to remedy the damage done In past years living Jiving conditions in Ve Western America will become Increasingly difficult and unattractive Although more damage nas na been done since the recent drouth Dr Pack does docs oes not believe that excessive ex ex- rains will remedy tho the situation sit- sit nation since over grazing the thereal thereal real ical cause of this condition still remains i Pro Profound changes in in desert vegetation vegetation vegetation are noted by Dr Walter P. P Cottam professor professor professor-of of botany at atthe atthe atthe the University of Utah During the past two summers summers Dr Cottam has directed a study of the Utah desert for the U U. U S. S Forest orest 4 Service Service Service Ser Ser- vice and his report will soon be published in a bulletin Desert Types and Conditions of Heavily Grazed Valleys of the Utah Des Des- ert Our study showed that the average average av nv- av- av surface of the ground covered covered cov cov- ered red on the deserts is about three thre per per- percent cent Dr Cottam said We Va also found that the more palatable plants were old and on the decline decline de de- 4 cline and the less palatable plants were younger and more numerous Russian thistle a comparatively comparative comparative- ly new plant in Utah is now gaining gaining gain gain- ing ground rapidly Dr Cottam continued Since the Russian thistle Is an annual plant which fails to come up In years of adverse ad ad- adverse verse conditions the desert Is becoming becoming be be- coming more and more barren If It unregulated gr grazing g continues it itis itis itis is only a q question of time until Utan's deserts desert vill become sandy aandy and barren |
