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Show Range Examiner Explains Rules For Grazing Rights The following explanation of regulations reg-ulations for determining grazing rights on the Public Domain, u submitted by J. Calvin Croft, Junior Range Examiner, U. S. DepartmeU of Interior Grazing Service, who is at the present time making a survey sur-vey of the Vlrgai Grazing District to.drterinlne the number of pernuti each range user can qualify for. The Taylor Grazing Act was enacted en-acted by a law of Congress, June 28, 1934. Under this Act our Virgin Grazuig District was created, comprising com-prising the counties of Iron and Washington and part of Garfield and Kane Counties. The Act allows grazing to our stockmen that are qualified by the two factors: First, owned or leased base property; second, priority of use. Base pioprety is land that is now, and was used by range livestock before be-fore the enactment of the Taylor Grazing Act and only to the ex- tent of Its use In connection with I the 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, produc-tion, therefore, It Is necessary to have all grazing lands rated by an examiner to estimate the production. produc-tion. It is planned to examine all the base properties of stockmen in the Virgin Grazing District and make an interview to establish priority pri-ority claims. x The Grazing Service gave the stockmen four years to list or submit sub-mit in writing all their base 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 of livestock run between the yeara of 1929-34 are considered the number num-ber of qualified livestock. Non-use or Inactive licenses, after af-ter two years, will disqualify all priority. After the property has been rated rat-ed and priority number established a stockman will qualify for whichever which-ever is the least number, the priority pri-ority or the property. For example, a stockman may have sufficient base feed for 500 cattle but a priority number of 100. Then he will qualify for only 100. The re-verse re-verse is also true. Another stock-man stock-man may have a priority of 500 cattle and a base to feed 100 cat-1 cat-1 tic. He will be limited to 100 cattle u also. The lowest number of either 'I base property or priority number !s the limiting factor for qualifying numbers in grazing. The Grazing Service does not expect to be able to Issue ten-year u permits to 100 percent of all qualifying quali-fying numbers of livestock because the carrying copaclty of the Fed- eral Range will necessitate some j reduction. |