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Show Cedar City's BLM Office Lists 1953 Land Improvements Working in cooperation with stockmen in their area, the local BLM office at Cedar City has now completed its 1953 year federal land development program. Since July, 3085 acres of brush lands have been plowed and seeded to crested wheat grass. Twenty-eight and one half miles of range fences, one cattle guard and four livestock reservoirs have been constructed. The reseeded lands are located on the escalante escal-ante Desert and in Buckskin Valley. Val-ley. Observations show that seed from the new plantings has germinated ger-minated and new grass plants are visible. The grass, when established, es-tablished, will increase much needed forage for livestock and reduce soil erosion on th? federal fed-eral land. The Beaver Valley Grazing As- 3uv.iaiiuii lias Lvupt'iditu wiiri uie BLM by constructing seven miles of fence to protect one of the plantings from livestock grazing for a three-year period. Other fences constructed north of Lund divide the range betwen Miners-ville Miners-ville stockmen and the Cedar City stockmen. In Dog Valley a long fence was constructed to divide di-vide range land use between the Circleville, Spry and Beaver stockmen. Stockmen benefited performed the actual construction construc-tion work. BLM district personnel working with the cooperating stockmen are Lynn G. Leishman, W. Reed Roberts, Oral B. Birch, Nick James Cozakos, Paul Arns and Conway E. Parry, according to Area Manager Richard S. Greenland Green-land of the Cedar City area. Plans are being developed to carry on a progressive program for the 1954 year. |