Show I RAZING GRAZING SERVICE SERCE GETS LEASE LEASE E SE ON ON N LIFE AS FEE IS SETTLED SETTLED New Arrangement ement Makes Makes I Taylor Ta o o Crazing Grazing Act ct More ore Money Iton Available A for Range Administration Inquiry discloses d s l that most mosi Uintah County stockmen sto stoc nen anen ap ap- approve ap- ap approve prove the reopening of the local of District No go 8 O Othe of t I the Bureau J tf It I t Range Manage Management ment Grating in the Vernal Postoffice Building To be i aV t die he vie general grazing conference which open opened ed cd at Salt Lake pity P r Wednesday y and which id participated parti Wednesday ted In it by representatives of the 11 land grant states and South Dakota is a policy on range improve improve- improvement ment management and admin admin- administration to conform with the revised distribution distri ution Of grazing fees as required re by the recent ly enacted Barrett Bill iU Briant H a IO er al Grazing Board the latter part of meet meet ee It appears that tEe trie the problem of grazing fees which nearly I blew the Bureau of Land Man out of existence isnow is isnow now nearer definite settlement I than at any time during the th they 13 I years sin singe e the passage of the Just befOre lore adJournment on gress passed the Barrett bill which provides a for lor a different distribution of the th receipts from fees from front grazing crazing lands admin- admin administered administered by bythe the Bureau of Land LandMa Management Management- Ma The bill bin makes available a larger larger- percentage of grazing receipts to finance Bras gru- raz ing tag administration The new neW ne act provides that 25 29 per cent of the fees collected will be used for fot range Improve Improve- Improvements ments 12 cent 12 per cent of the re remainder will wUl e be returned to the state and the remaining por por- portion tion of the fees tees will go into the into the federal treasury and thus be available for to pay costs of admi administration The Barrett bill cuts from SO ISO per cent to 12 12 2 per cent the amounts turned over to district advisory boards in Utah to be expended for range Improve improve- improvements ments meats 0 turtle passage 1 passage GJ the Ue he Barrett Bill according to J A Krug secretary of the Interior represents represents the first step in putting into effect th the plan worked out Jointly last fall fall fail by Rex L Nick Nick- Nickelson elson the secretary's special as as- as stant and representatives of Continued on page pale 12 Grazing r g e Continued from page 9 the livestock livestock industry The Nich elson plan recommended an in in- in increase crease in grazing fees from five cents cent to eight cents per cow month It also recommended that thet 70 per cent of the adminis II costs rom be chargeable to the livestock industry Congress before adjourn adjourn- adjournment adjournment provided provided ment provided a total of for field administration of the Grazing Service This is ex ex- ex- ex expected expected to provide a district grazier and a clerk for every grazing district although ap ap- 10 of the 60 00 dis dis- will have to be conso consolidated ed l for administration with 1 others This staff will be able 16 to t do do essential adjudication I and give general gener l supervision I but will have little time for ex ex- ex field work on trespass arid other range n ne e administration However because ause fees collect collect- collected collected ed Will wUl make m ike the agency essentially essen eSsen- eSsentially supporting self by next year it iris is is expected that Con Con- Congress gress greas will provide for adequate n based on the Nicholson report Dale Date C Naylor Is grazier glazier in charge of the Vernal office and Grace Findley is the clerk |