| Show speech delivered by R H rutledge gc regional forester of ogden utah the me livestock industry duttry tn of utah Is one ot the most important the extent 0 to o which farming can be carried on in the la Is limited ot IX 52 acres total state area leu less than acres are now under cultivation and with the very wy best of planning for tho the con of c the water nater resource resources it Is estimated that not to exceed acres can ever be put under cultivation and it will be many yeara yean before 2 acre acres are exceeded this situation definitely limits the amount of farm pastur age which can be produced and al so limits the amount of forage which can bu raised for winter feeding the livestock industry la is Ow therefore fore di dt pendent upon the use and the n of the natural range there are am in the state about head of cattle aad and nearly head of cheep sheep arliese livestock normally produce a awa return of twenty to tsen ty five million dollars it la is evident dm therefore that the welfare ot t the stock industry which use uses t the he bulk of the land of the state is la of creat gmt importance the iante lands of utah are an dt add broadly into three claws u a governed Korer ned by elevation bra climate to wit the high mountains and the lower louer mountain foot idels and adjacent volley valley januz 1 and the deserts or flats and roiling roll ing cour country stry for convenience in thia th discussion thebe three cl 1 aslet will 71 be called mountains foothills and deierl artal u Dewri att Wn of cgue tabt class of ranee land haa a general elevation of froin from 7 to feet it has snowfall ranging rang Ting from three to in eight tight acet a short grazing sea a son roughly from june I 1 to october IS 15 or less than four months it la Is well watered has a generally good supply ot of summer rain and largely goob soil three fourtha of this cl si Is timbered with open parks merdas and hillsides it has ban a cool summer climate and la Is naturally nn an ideal summer range for both cattle and sheep it produce the most nutritious kinds of and weeds and various aric its orts of et browse this desirable combination of forage water and physical phy ical permits the production of the very highest grades of beef of wool and of lamb ibis class of range land und occupies the area between the rim 1 of the mountain ranges or plateaus and the adjacent alleys on ion one wit side and the detert desert edge on the other often foot foothill 11 ranges are we the oter steepest pest and roughest of the range lands and are most cut by canyons and ww washes the elevations are sue from froin four to seven thoi and sand feet snowfall Is moderate from two to three feet summer rams raino are scant this range has fair son oil and Is mirly well uell watered in lie its natural states grass weeds and rub oak and other browse browses are plentiful the annual plants grow jesa less prolifically than on the mountains end and aa as a rule dry up early illy in tua summer the ur arax as ng season la 13 roughly from april IS 25 to july 1 2 and october I 1 to december I 1 ibis ie is a very range in the spring during the period from the teed feed lot or desert to the mountains it also bridges bradfi es tha the gap in tango range from the time cold weather corces stock off the mountains to the feed lot or to ahe he winter range desert this range comprises the vast valley floor floors and low dry ranges of detached hill hills it haa has an elevation ci of from four to seven thousand A feet it Is ery iery poorly watered summer rains are very cant scant or entirely absent 5 lull Is from nothing to I 1 afi affet water rain and snow are lery ery poorly distributed and boil soil Is generally poor mcange plants consist of some frases with short browse of the salt bush and cago sago species this land Is I 1 valuable tor for range use then winter storms furnish water vater and to so soften the herh vegetation a tation that the stock can util be it readily clr ant condition alis class clam of ranle ts Is mostly within the national forests and has been under administration for nearly thirty extremely nely heavy unregulated use prior to the creation of the forests had depreciated this range dee aee rely the best beat forage plante plants were beg beginning bUting to disappear non forage plants were coing corn JIB tn in the top or humia humua soil sas belne being lost and conditions a were gener generally aliv bad when these lands were placed under administration tra tion the new now science of ran ranee cc management waa developed he ne as instituted to determine the natural laws laus affecting adf feting the de elopement elop ment of plants when under graz ng use the effect of dU different ferent reasons caserns ca of crazing and different kinds of grusine was determined end and best bat methods of grazul for the production prediction of livestock lh estock and the protection and improvement ot of the range were cre worked out these laws las and results were applied gh the cooperation of the and by officers tr trained alried in range tho the result has been a very eat improvement in thel the cor cordt cordil dil on of 0 this class clam of re all alch I lit ia a re to improving improve in carry ins ing cap v and rind many ot of bern ere are back to in tin mal roc hill thili this claa class cla a of land Is almost outs da de the national emsta and Is r xa therefore hart no pubic control boino of this land ia Ls privately owed in but faw in stances ho however sever tit 1 enough own ed t to ermide thi th i necee siry amount af frugal corins the acta of chis clai does of elree is less lea than that I 1 needed anu and in domrad the mow |
