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Show t TH E .10 FOREST SERVICE UPHOLDS PRESENT GRAZING METHODS i , . . Although favoring legal recognition of the grazing of live stock as a sub- ordinate use of the. national forests to be harmonized with their major purposes of timber, growing and water shed protection, Colonel W. B. Greeley, chief of the forest service, in his annual report to the secretary of agriculture, made public recently, warns against radical departures from the policies and practices established by . over twenty years of forest adminis- tration. The extreme measures advocated by western stock men for legal recog- nition of grazing rights to be permanently vested in the present occupants of the range, it is held by the chief forester, would bring to an end effective control of grazing by the forest service, and would make impossible adequate protection of other forest resources and public interests in the properties. The forest service has always held to jusit contrary-t- public policy-an- d tice to permit individual grazing rights to become vested in the national forests, declares Mr. Greeley. It is convinced that the adequate protection of forest growth, watershed cover, wild life, and the productivity of the ranges themselves require the continuation of grazing only as a privilege of use, made as stable as other considerations warrant, but still subject to curtailment or adjustment from time to time. The same policy is believed necessary in order to permit the most equitable distribution of grazing privileges on the national forests as the future needs of western agricultural and live stock communities may determine. The forest service believes that grazing may properly be recognized by law as a desirable and permanent form of use of the national forests, subordinate to and correlated with their major purposes of timber production and watershed protection. Such a legal recognition will bring certain advantages of assurance and stability to the live stock interests which utilize these resources and should continue to utilize them. At the same time, if adequate provision is made for the administrative control and regulation of grazing, such a course will, it is believed, be in harmony with our accepted national policy of conservation. Although there has been no enactment of legislation concerniny grazing the past year, Mr. Greeley points out that by regulation of the secretary of agriculture provision was made for local grazing boards of review made up of stockmen elected by the permittees and one forest service official. This provision is made in response to the request' of stock men for a change in the appeals procedure in cases of disagreement between o grazing permittees and forest' offic- is indicated, however, that many of the advisory boards of the live stock associations refused to call the elections, stating that the present procedure for appealing from' decis ials. It CITIZEN ions of local forest officers was satis- RETURNING REFUGEES. factory. Thousands of that ap- Mr. Greeley also points out proximately fifty per cent (90 per cent in this intermountain district No. 4) of grazing permits outstanding are for the ten year period, thus indicating that much progress had already been made tbward meeting the' request of the stockmen for greater stability of range tenure. Recently the question of grazing fees was given a thorough and independent review by Dan B. Casement, expert live stock grower of Colorado, whose report is now before the secretary of agriculture. Because of the general depression in the cattle business and the recovery of the sheep busniess, the report indicates that many national forest permittees desired to change from cattle to sheep. This was done when the shift did not harm reforestation or watershed cover, or involve complications with cattle grazing. 11 , . . - NATIONAL FORESTS. National forest resources are more part and parcel of the life of the people in Utah than in any other state. Why this is so is set forth in Miscellaneous Circular No. 71-just issued by the forest service, United tSates Department of Agriculture, under the title of National Forest Resources of Utah. The pamphlet brings out the fact that the national forests of Utah supply summer forage for nearly a million cattle, horses, and sheep, over a quarter of all those owned in the state. More than eight thousand stockmen hold permits to graze their livestock on the forest ranges. The forests contain something over five billion feet of saw timber. And down from the high timbered mountain slopes, all above feet elevation, comes the water to irrigate Utahs farms and run many of her electric power plants. In every county in the state there is national forest land, which is true of no other state in the Union. Utah timber is not being drawn on very extensively at present, but this timber and especially the timber in the national forests is becoming more important as timber in other regions is cut out. Although Utah now cuts only about 37,000,000 board feet annually, the national forests of the state are capable, when called upon, of furnishing nearly 60,000,000 feet. The pamphlet describes the timber stands and the maner in which they are handled by the forest service to keep the land perpetually in forest, while making use of the mature timber. It also goes into the way in which other resources of the National Forests, such as forage, water, wild life, and recreational facilities, are handleed by the government. Nearly 80 per cent of the improved farm land in Utah is irrigated, and the greater part of the water used in irrigation comes from the National Forests. Copies of the pamphlet may be while the supply lasts, by addressing the Forest Service at Washington, D. C., or Ogden, Utah. 5,-0- ob-taine- Greek Americans, scattered through every city and town in the United tSates, will be glad to know, through a report from the Near East Relief to the state department, that the of more than 1,000,000 refugees of Grecian blood from Turk-rule- d lands to their ancestral soil is working finely for the economic restoration of Greece. After the rout of the Greek army and the fall of Smyrna, four years ago, there was a rush of 1,400,000 destitute refugees of Hellenic lace to the nearest ports for Athens. They came from Anatolia, Thrace, Russia, Bulgaria and Constantinople, and soon there was terrible congestion, with peril not only of starvation but pestihome-icomin- g lence. American leadership brought international rescue work into the situation, and in 1924 a loan of $50,000,000 was successfully floated in England and America to assist Greece in settlement of the refugees. Since that time, under the direction of Henry Morgenthau, 60, GOO houses have been built and 75,00 families settled on the land. Funds in hand are sufficient for the coming winter, and an additional loan of $25,000,000 will be sought to complete the work. The wheat crop of Greece was 70 per cent greater in 1924. Carpet makers, this year-thawith an art learned in Turkey, have established a new and flourishing This mass migratio , t in historic times, will e vent IN GOD WE a new stability for 1he The waste lands of Mssednsylvania pri ing brought into culti 'atit the recognitii mixed races of the Ba kannB sorted out and built inttkinson mic eous nations. 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