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Show Local Supervisor Reports on Dixie Forest Grazing During the 1949 grazing season, sea-son, 21,000 cattle and horses and 51,000 sheep harvested the summer sum-mer crops of forage on the Dixie National Forest, according to a report by Albert Albertson. for- est supervisor. He adds that non-use permits for the season were granted for 2,962 cattle and horses and 19,934 forest as a whole was about nor- mal. The stock that used the Dixie forest ranges in 1949 was owned by 666 cattlement and 95 sheepmen, sheep-men, with grazing receipts totaling total-ing over $78,000. In order to properly pro-perly handle and manage the grazing animals, the sum of $483,500 has been invested in Dixie forest fences, corrals, stock driveways and range water developments. de-velopments. An additional $208,-000 $208,-000 has been spent on range re-seedings, re-seedings, to bring depleted, overgrazed over-grazed land back into production. produc-tion. Converting the permitted sheep to cattle at a ratio of five sheep for one cow, the range improvement improve-ment Investment to date amounts to $18.19 per head of cattle permitted per-mitted to graze on the forest. Mr. Albertson stresses in his report that watershed values are of first importance, and that grazing graz-ing can be permitted on the National Na-tional forests only to the extent that the watershed is not damaged. dam-aged. He adds that the continuing continu-ing range reseedlng program will add extra grazing capacity each ear to relieve the pressure on important watersheds. |