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Show Grazing Service Soil and Moisture Improvement Program To Start Soon By JAY D. LASATER Grazier Aide The Grazing service soil and moisture mois-ture range improvement program, which was discontinued during the winter months, will begin within the next week. Seventy-five miles of fence are included in this program, pro-gram, besides reservoirs, road construction, con-struction, and reseeding of the range. All work crews will be made up of men residing in St. George and on the Arizona Strip. The range improvement program pro-gram is being carried on to aid in better range management on each ranch unit, which in turn will aid in the production of more pounds of meat per animal unit. Increased production, without the abusing of our natural resources, is an essential factor in the providing pro-viding of meat by the western stockmen for the armed forces of both the United States and its allies, defense workers and the people at home. A recently completed range improvement im-provement that will prove of benefit bene-fit to many stockmen on the Arizona Ari-zona Strip is the Point of Rocks reservoir enclosure. This was an emergency project, in as much as during the past week or so several sev-eral head of cattle had bogged (Continued on page eight) Soil Improvements (Continued from first page) be encouraging to stockmen and farmers now called upon to produce pro-duce meat and agricultural products prod-ucts in great amounts needed in the war, the supervisor said. The following figures are given for Harris Flat: 1941, snow depth, 38.1 in.; water content, 14.2 in.; 1942, snow depth, 29 in.; water content, 8.09 in.; 6-year average, snow depth, 31.2 in.; water content, con-tent, 11 in. The following figures are given for Pine Valley: 1941, snow depth, 82 in.; water content, 27.4 in.; 1942, snow depth, 61.1 in.; water content, 21.3; 6-year average, snow depth, 60.6 in.; water content, 21.0 in. The snow measurements were made by Forest Rangers William M. Hurst, Wilford Bentley and Irwin H. Johnson of the Dixie National forest; Chief Ranger D. J. Jolley and Ranger R. P. Holland Hol-land of Zion National Park. |
