| Show 4001odrs 4r - m I 14 A '''''' P 1 t! - -i i iI 1) 1 i g ! - A6 UTAH The Salt Lake Tribune r 0 Stmday September 12 1993 g 4 4 1 A 4 1- Ranchers IN Iary Reform Will Destroy Their Way of Life 0 Continued Al from — -- 1 NM Wyoming who has ranched the east slope of the Bighorn Mountains since 1959 Utah ranchers say these things will happen if they are priced off public lands: II They'll go out of business III The market value of ranches many of which are a combination of private and federal range will plummet and reduce county properrevenues ty-tax They'll quit grazing on state lands which are interspersed with federal property and that will mean less money to Utah schools la They'll give in to urban sprawl and sell agricultural land 4— now viewed as open space — to developers II Small rural towns will die If ranchers go under says longtime sheepman Ray Lake City America will have to on foreign coun- I I 1 E E 7 ti'7 2425300 I F71837335 ke1804369 E 1 171442014 - CALIF D 795814 NEB W85334 WASH 779315 S r2r r 1172613sa N D One unit is enough foragE land to feed a cow and a calf or 5 when rt But the government's own watchdog the General Accounting Office has issued 32 reports Since 1971 pointing out how the federal land program is squandering millions of dollars by charging too little for grazing rights For example in fiscal 1991 the BLM spent $45 million on Managing and improving federal range yet collected only $19 million in grazing receipts Synar himself a rancher complains that the federal grazing program costg taxpayers MO million a year Yet some people say that's a small price to preserve heritage "If we pursue policies that destroy rural America then we are losing a national treasure more valuable than any national park or monument we spend our tax dollars on now" says Ted Stewart director of the Utah Department of Natural Resources But on the other side of the equation the cry to save Western "custom and culture" doesn't compute "These ranchers claim they're n for sheep 1 month Dennis tlreenThe Salt Lake Tribune Sources USDA Intenor Department they're losing their only losing their political clout" says Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA) attorney Scott Groene Adds Ken Rait SUWA issues coordinator: "What is the federal government doing for the thousands of people laid off by Sears Roebuck and Proctor and Gamble? They too have a 'custom and culture' But for some reason these people want a whole new set of rules for the Marlboro Man" Much of the emotion over reforming the historical leniency toward private use of public resources started with a fight over $242 That's how much Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt wants to raise federal grazing fees during the next three years To graze a cow and her calf — or five sheep — for one month on federal lands ranchers now pay $186 about the cost of a 14- ounce bag of potato chips By 1996 Babbitt wants to increase that monthly fee to $423 which would pump another $985 million into the US Treasury For decades environmentalists and politicians have complained that federal grazing charges are substantially less than the average $5 to $15 per cowcall charged to lease private pasture or some state lands Although the grazing fee represents only 2 percent to 5 percent of total overhead costs many Utah ranchers say doubling the permit fees is the last straw "If they do that we'll be out of the sheep business" says Blaine --- wool grower Bitner a from Summit County "You've just got too muct stuff against you these days" His livelihood is being attacked in Washington and in the woods Coyotes gnaw the faces off his ewes and mountain lions lunch on his lambs he says noting that predators killed 500 of his 2500- head flock last year "A predator is a thief there's no difference" he says nodding toward a flatbed wagon with seven coyote carcasses on it "You catch somebody stealing 25 percent of your paycheck and you just don't leave them alone You shoot them" Many ranchers would like to use the same technique to solve the political threat to their liveli- "I am personally surprised we haven't seen somebody shot yet" says Ted Lee executive secretary of the Utah Woolgrowers Association "You start talking about control and ownership of lands and well countries have gone to war over less than this" A monetary systtem revolving around grazing pe rmits is at stake While subject to inheritance tax by the IRS legally the permits have no rash volute But historically' batiks wrote mortgages tied to the penmits and their worth was incorporated into the selling price of a ranch Not any mote 4'We quit lending money ' on federal permits a few years a go and right noi buyers are a littl e leery of any operation that has a major "resource advisory councils" i sharp increases in Average monthly rates $12 I $10 1 I $1003 I r$78iree 11111111111111111111im 1 111 alimmImissongliammommononwom--4- kr $8 $4 NE M011 Matarl86 $2 Pfam-1111- 11 1111 $6 1 Ruoummo 1 immol'amainetinnEMM 0 1 '83 '84 '85 '86 '87 '88 '89 '90 '91 '92 '93 Rates are 'animal unit month which is the amount of forage consumed by a cow and calf or five sheep for one month Projected fee increase The new grazing rates are not expected to take effect until late 1994 and are to be phased in over three years The average phase-i- n rates: Current $186 1st year 1$276 2nd year $352 3rd year $428 Source: Interior Department Agriculture Department Gannett reform in Utah the BLM has cut Utah into three "ecosystems" and designated "lead agency" status to BLM offices in neighboring states For instance northern Utah ranching impacts will be studied by Nevada BLM as part of the "Great Basin Ecosystem" Southeast Utah falls under jurisdiction of Colorado BLM as part of the "Colorado Plateau Ecosystem" And southwest Utah lands are in another desert ecosystem one studied by the Arizona BLM These surrounding state offices of BLM will study ranching impacts in each ecosystem and then the Utah state BLM office will "field test some of the components of the reform package on actual allotments in this state" says Banks of Utah BLM Yet some ranchers don't need a e study to tell them to change with the times BLM officials in Utah say they cannot recall the last time any public-land- s rancher in the state lost a grazing permit due to poor performance "Cancellations are extremely rare" says Utah BLM spokesman Don Banks None of these range reforms is law yet Massive environmental-impac- t statements (EISs) are being drawn up to assess the effects of Babbitt's proposals Those 3 made up of environmentalists hunters biologists and business owners Plus if ranchers mismanage the public land grazing leases could be terminated quickly — which is nearly unheard of today 1 grazing fees on federal Western lands to bring Bureau of Land Management and US Forest Service rates closer to what privately owned rangeland costs The new fees affect more than 260 million acres in 16 western states including all 30 million acres of BLM and Forest Service land in Utah Average monthly federal fees vs private lease rates: I k hood i i 1 Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt wants r -- ORE "Most people think food just comes from the grocery store- Says the grizzled rancher and member of the Public Lands Council "Pretty soon We're going to depend on other countries for everything and we'll have to line up for a loaf of fourth-generatio- I j' 274775111 '— -- -r COLO bread" - VwY0 ARIZ epenurer : I MONT tries west-dese- NEV r dependency on public lands" says Rick Lovell vice pr( !sident of Key Agricultural Credit Corp in North Salt Lake City "Do you want to buy deeded land and run it the way you want or hal re a BLM or Forest Service officia d dictating your operation?" Ranchers maintain it cc ists them more to graze federal la ads than to lease private pasture A recent study by Pepperdine Uni versity's Graduate School of Man agement anchers found that Montana grazing on public lands a re operating at a financial disadvantage compared to those who graze on private property Sitting 60 miles west of Salt Lake City Freed's Skull Valley Co is a good example v thy To rustle enough forage for 2000 head of cattle in the barren sert the ranchers have b uilt 67' miles of fence 22 miles a f water pipeline 37 wells or sprir igs and 174 miles of roads on pubt c land They must reseed vegetati on and are monitored frequently on pasture rotation by a BLM ran ge conservationist "We've been on this lad t for 40 years and want to be out h ere another 40 years so we're wi ding to make these improvements at our own expense" says Paul Freed general manager of the ranch "It's not our land but we tre the stewards of it and we tak e that responsibility very seriousl: y" Critics of ranching con iplain many tenants of public gi7azing lands don't care if their catt le destroy vegetation by overgrazing and trample stream-banurea& Environmentalists are lobibying for more protection of these "riparian" areas the banks of a 'eeks that support all manner of rOants and wildlife Babbitt's new requirement inelude curtailing the use of pesticides transferring developed water rights to the government shortened grazing seasons and restricting subletting of federal grazing rights for a profit Instead of having only ranchers on local grazing advisory boards — which help determine range improvement policy and projects — the interior secretary wants sIiicil2 1f UTAH Salt 1 KEN RMT 1 I Marlboro Mali Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance IDAHOII : — want a whole new set of rulesfi T the TrptFrmFnrrTrnc7:rrmrpppzzn'S7:'""'"'""'"'"'I 1 I I Mese people i docu- ments will be issued in December a rapid turnaround for such landmark changes but it's a deadline Interior Department officials swear will be met The EIS findings could hold the fate of many Utah ranchers However Utah's political clout in influencing the decisions is diminished due to the manner in which the Interior Department decided to conduct the studies Instead of performing a statewide EIS on the impact of range 200-pag- II See Next Page - I ----- r- - - 1 v -- --i - -- - - r - 0 ie insert the Sharp today's OfficeMax was incorrectly priced Assistant Personal Digital Expert is at $29997 The correct price $69999 with a savings of $19901 off of the $89900 Catalog List Price We apologize for any inconvenience PI-70- ge - fficetwi""- X 1 tr D - 1 'THE James Ferg uson of Pharmacology Corporatiol 1 is conducting a research J an investigetional antidepressant medication '1' 4r4 V k11 A IF YOU ARE BETWEEN THE AGES OF 18 AND 65 AND ARE CURRENTLY TAKING AN ANTIDEPRESSANT AN D IT IS INTERFERING WITH YOUR SEX LIFE (PR MAKING YOU FEEL ANXIOUS OR AGITAkrED1 YOU MAY BE ELIGIBLE TO PARTICIPA TE ' or te IF 4 :- ' -- 1 9rt BIG 1 iI 1 ( ci' t lQ0zo -- lat ryl ' 7 40 C: silo— t Ou 4 '':vi At : litc--- ay It- v--- Fri- ' 1 - tA ' 11Ill -- 3I - - - ion- ' - ' kuo' :?:: PilffT"it' Lt - : 1 brIff ft ?zr:au:t4t)la4 111111191illt1 tolittitiolt!tploillmiRk1 1 2 Portrait Christmas Cart" 00100101o 4it:04001 Christmas Scsckgrounti available at no extra charge :- $2 DEPOSIT $2 to the package price paid additional subject photogrophed-addpaid at photography Eochadvertised Your of our selection background choke POSMS for on 1)ortraits your at photography LIMIT ON NUMBER OF ADVERTISED COLLECTIONS PER favorite props wokomed NOW NO five additional FAMILY - but only one per subject Up to poses taken for optional portrait collection to purchose Portrait sizes approxenote with no PRICE INCLUDES obligation Get 93 Portraits For The Christmas Of '931 Hurry AndOPEN SEPT IS 5 DAYS ONLYI SUN SEPT 19 ' I Wei 10110 AM 7 FM Op Ilus IS I AMERICAN FORK WIN LK la Oces opening Eton) HAVE THESE ARE WED 1 Ified Sal SALT I AM LAKE u:m m rt 10 I OREM PM On CITY (W 4100 A PERMANENT SEPT tun 10 AM (of S) I S RICHFIELD PRICE 15 SUN é I DRAPER ' IIETAL tot slots closing 1100914 SPANISH FORK PM STUDIO OPEN 5 DAYS 19 VALLEY CM' IIITA 0 If OKA t7 - A - - pg t 71 f Li''X '- ri - --- -- - 7:301 pm (1 in) : - Inn ine sr Mliteklititlahastal6Stoka4Potgto tpluelot4 a :!244oi- nrri "CLOSET NARCISSIST" BILL FULTON LCSW ' - ': ' U ' - R ‘ - Call '' s On-Goi- 11 - V -! 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