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Show Odd DDdncnrQo ctdstdD When the BLM GrazingAdvisory Board meets on Friday, May 19th, it will bring together some of the most knowledgeable people on desert and mountain range in Southern Utah. Cleo Wood, IronCountyCommissioner, and cattleman in Southern Utah, Eastern Nevada, and Northern Arizona for more than 40 years has impeccable credientials. He served on the Grazing Advisory Board from 1944 until they were abolished in 1973. The other members, Merrill Mac-Donald, Mac-Donald, Kane County Commissioner; Vard Heaton, Alton native, a sheepman turned cattleman; Phil Allen of Antimony, a breeder breed-er of champion polled herfords and Ed-I Ed-I win Larson, a Cedar City sheepman, all j bring years of experience, both practical and on advisory boards. But will they serve in name only? i BLM abolished the advisory boards in 1973 and the new regulations setting up advisory boards give them no power. In other words, BLM is charged with setting up advisory boards - but like most public imput - the regulations do not require re-quire BLM to take advice. These fine gentlemen could contribute a valuable service. They know what to expect from the range, good weather or bad. They know the range and where a few dollars can make vast improvements. They also know where those same dollars will bring no return. We hope that BLM will listen carefully to what these men tell them. We hope BLM will seek their advice, and use it to the best advantage of the desert and mountain moun-tain range. But we are afraid they will serve in name only! "Red" |