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Show Grazing Service Rules And Regulations Defined By Official The Taylor Grazing Act was enacted en-acted by a law of Congress, June 28, 1934. Under this Act our Virgin Grazing district was created, cre-ated, comprising the counties of Iron and Washington and parts of Garfield and Kane counties. The Act allows grazing to stockmen stock-men that are qualified by the two factors: First, owned or leased base property; second, priority of use. Base property is land is now, and was used by range livestock before the enactment of the Taylor Tay-lor Grazing Act, and only to the extent of its use in connection with Federal range. Feed used by milk cows, domestic stock, or sold, is not considered- dependent for Federal range privileges. The amount of dependent lands a stockman has, helps determine the size of his grazing permit. However, all lands are not equal in production, therefore, it is necessary nec-essary to have all grazing lands rated by an examiner to estimate the production. It is planned to examine all the base properties of stockmen in the Virgin Grazing district and make an interview to establish priority claims. The Grazing service gave the stockmen four years to list or submit sub-mit in writing all their hase lands and claims. Lands and claims listed after June 28, 1938, do not qualify. Priority is tied to land and not to individuals. The average number num-ber of livestock ran between the years of 1929-34 are considered the rrumher of qualified livestock. Non-use or inactive licenses, after two years, will disqualify all priority. After the property has been rated and priority number established estab-lished a stockman will qualify for whichever is the least number, the priority or the property. For example, a stockman may have base feed for 500 cattle but a priority number of 100. Then he will qualify for 100 only. The reverse is also true. Another stockman may have a priority of 500 cattle and a base to feed 100 cattle. He will be limited to 100 cattle also. The lowest number of either base property or priority numbers is the limiting factor for qualifying numbers in grazing. The, Grazing service does not expect to be able . to issue ten-ye8Tv-pennii3 to 00 per cent ot all qualifying numbers of live-' stock because the carrying capacity capac-ity of the Federal range will necessitate nec-essitate some reduction, i |
