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Show TEne SWeaoa (? Lairadl MainiagjeinrDeifiiG Approximately 965,000 acres of public domain lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management Manage-ment lie within Iron County. These public lands are managed under multiple use objectives designed to increase or sustain the yield of basic, ba-sic, renewable resources and wisely used nonrenewable resources. Each resource is managed in combination combina-tion with the others for its value to the people. Public lands furnish water wa-ter for many beneficial uses; recreational rec-reational opportunities include camping, hunting, sightseeing; woodland products such as Christ mas trees, fence posts an'i fireplace fuel; forage for big game and livestock; live-stock; wildlife including mule deer, chukkar partridge, antelope, quail cougar, sage grouse, coyote, mourning mourn-ing doves, rabbits, bobcats; mineral miner-al deposits and claims are found in abundance these include iron, mercury, zinc, lead, silver, copper, fluorite, coal, building stone. They are available for transfer to private ownership if they are chiefly chief-ly valuable and required for the orderly growth and development of communities, or industrial, commercial commer-cial or residential developments. KxrV Livestock sales within Iron County amount to $5 million annually. About 50 (40,000) of the sheep and 62 (13,000) of the cattle graze on BLM administered public land. Parowan Gap Petroglyphs Outdoor recreation opportunities attract at-tract thousands of visitors each year. r Use of pinon pine for Christmas trees is increasing rapidly. Cutting Cut-ting and shipping these trees is becoming an important industry. From five to ten thousand trees are cut annually from BLM lands within Iron County. Additional recreational facilities are provided through compounded compound-ed waters, lakes and streams. Sportsmen find many opportunities for fishing and hunting in the Iron County area. |