Show r r ferr ferry y carn carpenter F enter blasts claims that overgrazing causes erosion farringt farrington on R ferry carpen ter of routt county was a sen at the of tho the wyoming yo ng stoc k growers A at douglas wyo last week lie he said A that ia t the e c chargo charge argo that a overgrazing Is the cause of ex erosion often leveled i jy t KUrn stockmen stoc kmen in the curre pr acanda war is orle orte or of tazo thi I 1 half truths ever spoken carpenter rp first director of the grazing service and widely known as the cowboy attorney wa was 4 a feature of the big biff meet ing in wyoming win aln he defended the stock raisers erosion caused by overgraze ing carpenter said Is a tiny percentage of the excessive erosion which has gone eone on for thousands of 0 f years bears ye a in innas this region of light soils steep inclines and floth arh frh storms stressing the importance of a truel true truo tactual picture of this aroas areas he lie sd it should be known that with all the diligent search scorch and hard work and ingenuity of thousands of land hungry settlers less than four per cent of the intermountain inter mountain region has yielded to the plow and half that amount is arti artl finally irrigated even the most sanguine of the estimates of the reclamation bureau carpenter added do not add one per cent more to thih this arable hun pun part within w the v next hundred years and by the use of billions binions of dollars dollars of the regions million acres 25 per cent has hat no agrical tural value whatever being sand dunes creosote brush desert sheep canons and barren rocks he said twenty five per cent has some value as timber and watershed land and seasonal pasture land 25 per cent has a use as low i grade pasture and the remain der dor is semiarid semiarid and arable lands the federal government carpenter said owns 54 per cent or acres of the 11 so called public lands states leaving out the parts of these states which lie outside the th e in ter lei mountain region about 75 per cent of the region is in gov eminent control on overgrazing he said the greatest deterrent to this practice ever found to date is in responsibility and ila lla lia y for nearly half a century carpenter said sald the U T S forest r i i z a i i service has had absolute control of nearly million acres of land which produced feed which is ah important factor in the nations meat supply during that time timp the they have created a new science of ecology suitable for the region their rules have not been to limitations even by the courts of the land in spite of this absolute power by their own ad mission these key grazing lands have f badly deteriorated in cover their assertions do not re concile with the carefully kept records of scores of users over a long period of years which 11 i allow that cu calves I 1 ves and lambs taken directly from forest pas tures to the packers have been increasing y in leht weight and leamy y each cach year the time mc e ha has 8 come como fa carpen orpen ter dec laredo r for lor a restatement of our 0 n land which 1 I 1 realistic rea rca and which win wi ra I 1 give the required requited stability to the basic industry of inter mountain thusn A i tribunal 01 in which u interest cd ed agencies interested private part parties lies lips and alsin tet tel rested parties tire ore represented should u determine now how much land in the region is ls to remain permanently la 11 ln in federa federal 1 copt cont control rol roi tile stockmen stoc kmen suggested on the question of proper ad ministration of the public land carpenter said the creation of the U S grazing service in 1934 10 to administer the taylor grazing i districts demonstrates a method which has enhanced the efforts of the government lie he pointed out the etus dim diw service has boards of dietr ct advisers in every grazing district elected by po popular pu I 1 ar vote of the lne users these boards arc are an important ia eind rind nian valuable part of the administration and send representatives to a state board which ch selects representatives to a ii lonal n i board tl somo some ii li nilar af bechn technique italie should be followed in reorganize ing B thc administrative agencies governing these immense emich cmich emich pires piros of federal I 1 land a nd which wych wo we call national forests can 5 n arpen r fc en I 1 ter said steamboat sp springs P 9 s pilot |