Show Million Animals Graze On Utah Nat Forests lot National Forest resources are arc more part and parcel of the he life of the people in ii Utah than in any other state Why this is so is set forth in Miscellaneous Circular No M 71 just issued by the Forest Service United States Department of Agriculture Agriculture Agri Agri- culture under the title National Forest Resources of Utah The pamphlet brings out the fact that the National t Forests of Utah supply summer forage for tor nearly a million cattle horses and sheep over overa a quarter of all those owned in the state More than eight thou 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 aU above feet elevation comes the water to irrigate Utah's farms and run many of her electric power plants In ev every ry county in the state there is ie National Forest land which is true of no other state in the Union |