Show lions club told of true range conditional facing uintah county Sheep men at the regular luncheon of the llona lions club held at the congregational community house wednesday night it was decided that the lions doted support an effort to secure the round robbin of region fine tor for vernal this would mean that four teams old play tn in ernal during the th three nights thursday friday and saturday february 28 march I 1 and 2 to decide the teg lonal winners inners it Is 13 estima estimated ft that more than one thousand spectators will witness the games each cach right lion president W 6 henderson who returned from salt lake city on tuesday said that th t in conferring with the state road cona commission on tle road program for the uintah dasin basin during the corring yar y far ar was sas assured that the entire road from vernal to salt lake city mould be completed ta in 1929 lie ile said that the ward dugway would be a much better grade than at first planned it was wu originally planned arto make this ft a seven percent grade but when completed it will be reduced to a live pr per cent grade J C davis and briant StrIng hain in behalf of the said that vernal as primarily an in agricultural neri cultural community depending largely largel 7 on the rosery d and unreserved public domain upon which to graze approximately he heid id of sheep it was out that this basic InOus industry try 1 waa was being depleted through india indis criminate grazing upon the tle unreserved grazing areas of th the county by not interested in the con gervat on of this vast resource it wai was estimated that head of sheep ceru in from this type of grazin gT azIn 4 consequently the local herds ere being reduced t mak make way for the herds owned by men who hae io interest in the progress otress pr of our c anty ard who do not maintain ever a residence here where they are ce et rivin their in continued on pape pw 4 LIONS CLUB TOLD OF TRUE RANGE conditions FACING COUNTY continued from pao paka 1 comes the problem la 13 not one for the sheep andl cattle rattle grazers alone but A t Is 13 a vital problem for every taxpayer in uintah basin and hould should be met with due consideration A dis cussio i followed and a committee was appointed to investigate legislative matters having to do with the public ranges at the request of lion president W S 8 henderson supervisor A 0 nord of the ashley national forest gave a talk on the value of the forage resources to uintah county and the need for its perpetuation lie ile used ch charts in showing hov how some of the important ranee range forage plants re pond spond to various forms of treatment and pointed out that ranee range protection a is fundamentally recognition of th the plant requirements for growth and continued improper use of the forage kill ill first result in a retrogress sive succession of plant cover which will later be followed by depletion following the loss 1033 of the plant cover erosion Is greater and soil depletion takes place a condition which in the interests teresta in of conservation should be avoided experiments made at the great basin experiment station show that ion o eroded nerod soils an are decidedly more productive than eroded soils in discussing the open public ranges of uintah county he said in part 1 I have been informed by wool growers of the county that upwards of SO more sheep have entered the witter ranges over the past two or three years it has also been asserted by woof growers well familiar with the situation that these ranges have been reduced of their carrying capacity over the past ten year period about stout co 50 per cent thie this represents an alarming waste the this forage resource Is 13 being consumed or exploited as the resources of a mine we are not only harvesting an ansual cap c ap of forage but are consuming a gnat great oln of the resource itself against future production bomp like uke timber umber Is a renewable natural resources and ww if given the proper care can be PaN perpetual tuat at I 1 ed with use they cannot be used as a mine without violation of a great natural law thiodore thodore roosevelt has said the rhe of our people dep depends eds directly upon the energy and intelligence with which our natural 1 l resources are used resources are ar the final basis of national power and perpetuity the may be asked what shat la Is the lity of the present generation ene ration with respect to the use of this great resource to perpetuate it or to squander it without interrupt ulon certainly this great treat reduction of the forage resource in uintah county can not alone be attributed to the sheep men using the range runge but to you and me or anyone else within the present generation genera tuon who Is content that this great wast go on I 1 we will all agree that while this generation nay may hare have the legal right to reduce this great resource we do not have the moral right some claim that any move to protect this great resource Is for the benefit cf cl the wool growers Is not the wool crowing industry an asset to this county should it not also develop and grow aa well as the other industries everyone will agree that at al such tune time as the grazing grating lands can be pat to a hither use than the grazing of livestock they should be taken for the purpose but until that time they should at least be made to maintain their productivity mr nord stated that if e had reduced the carrying capacity of our ranges one half in the past ten years I 1 this his generation no doubt will be accredited with having raised a monument of waste which future generations will lass log remember not only will the future wool growers suffer buffer because of this condition but the future inhabitants of t tre communities will euffer suffer also and it would hi h clear in the ayea of any conservationist that if future prosperity ever will have reasons am for a suit against a generation for the abusive use of a great anew abe natural resource it certainly bertal uy will have against the present one for such unwarranted waste |