Show Plans Pans Made to Restore Utah Crazing Grazing Area Areas State u V S tp ip Join Farm Fann Interest In Program A powerful state federal organ organ- organization organIsation last week was being form form- formed form ed in Salt BaIt Lake to break a 10 acre bottleneck to expansIon of Utah a range cattle and sheep Industry Prof William Peterson dIrector i- i of the extension division of the Utah State Agricultural tural College explained to the group called to- to together together together gether that between the acres of plowed land In the state and the high forest summer range rang on the one side aide and the winter y range on the other the former fanner spring and summer range has long Ion g since been skinned Grasses and other plants of I gran-I graz graz- grazIng grazing ing value have become extinct on this area and largely replaced by black sage and weeds which ant ani male mals will not eat Success of the U S GrazIng Service in rehabilitating range rangelands rangelands lands and of the Forest Service in preserving the grazing value of at forest land land speakers declared shows that the he land between these areas can be returned to product productivity t vi Present ty at the meeting were rep rep- representatives representatives of the state grazing and forest services livestock men me and county agricultural agents Continued on Page five I i Plans Plan Made to Restore Utah I Grazing Areas Area Continued from page one The number of cattle and sheep that can cnn be pastured does not de depend depend depend pend on the carrying capacity of I the forest ranges but on the num num- number number number ber that can be carried through the winter and spring and forest officials declared that summer ranges could be open to many more livestock If these ranges could be closed to grazing until tin finally al ly ready each year Most of the bottleneck land is owned by farmers and live livestock livestock- tock men men and hence has haa been shut out from the vast land improvement I outI program under the now extinct ceo and other governmental agencies Experimental tracts tract have dia- dia dis disclosed closed tat hat at rye planted In the fU will wiD make ideal pasture in the spring Also when properly seeded and protected the perennial ases that once covered tIe the th land with again take possession It te is planned tto to furnish furbish the In- In In formation to to plots plot to prove that the cost coat of ot clearl clearing harrowing and seeding the land will be fled tied fied and to furnish ax as much actual cooperative aid as the present laws and appropriations will wOl permit permit- I Deseret News Newa |