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Show I Dixie National Forest Grazing Fees Outlined Fees for cattle grazing on the Dixie National Forest during 1963 will be five cents per animal month less than for 1961 use, but sheep grazing fees will be three-fourths three-fourths of one cent per animal month higher, Forest Supervisor Supervis-or Jack B. Shumate said today. This year's cattle grazing fees per animal month will be 46 cents. 52 cents and 55 cents, respectively re-spectively for the Dixie, Powell and Sevier Divisions of the forest. Sheep fees per month will be IO1 cents for the Dixie and Sevier Se-vier divisions, and 9 cents for the Powell division. A base for National Forest grazing fees was established in 1931, following a 10-year study of rentals paid to private persons, corporations, Indian reservations, States, and other Government agencies for use of comparable grazing lands. A base livestook selling price was established during the same 10-year study period. Supervisor Shumate stated stat-ed that current fees bear approximately approx-imately the same ratio to the 1931 base fees that livestock prices received by the producer for the year preceding bear to the ba- livestock prices. The Dixie National Forest furnished fur-nished 69,000 animal months' forage for-age for cattle and 8-1,000 animal months' feed for sheep last year. The United States Treasury received re-ceived $16,135 in grazing fees for this use. Supervisor Shumate pointed out, however, that 25 of these collections was returned to counties in which the forest is located for support of schools and roads. |