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Show Grazing Meeting attracts Spirited Group the Kanab meeting voiced his opinion, "It looks to me like the guy who abuses it is paying for his own abuse rather than the rest of us paying or it." Although there are a total of 153 permittees in the two Kanab resource areas, 116 in Dixie Resource Area, and 180 in the Arizona Strip, there were only 40 persons attending the meeting in Kanab and 30 in St. George. A meeting was scheduled Cedar City District Office Wednesday, Aug. 3, and in Escalante City Hall at 7:00 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 4. Genial Garth Colton, Arizona Strip District Manager, summed up . the St. George meeting when he told the group, "We're all going to be neighbors and working together, after this is all over. So you get your comments in, and they will be considered in the final draft of the rules that we all will have to follow." Public ' meetings on proposed grazing regulations have been characterized by spirited participation of Southern Utah and Arizona Strip ranchers, according to BLM officials who conducted meetings in Kanab and St. George, July 26 an and 27, respectively. The revisions in the proposed regulations being considered were made as a result of more than 1,000 comments submitted on the regulations proposed last year, as well as revisions necessitated by the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976. The current series of meetings are for the purpose of explanation and discussion of the proposed rules. Copies of the proposed rules were distributed at the meetings, and are available at the Cedar City BLM offices. of-fices. Comments should be mailed before September 6, 1977, to: Director, Bureau of Land Management, 1800 C Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20240. Among the concerns voiced by the ranchers were those regarding restrictions on supplemental feeding of their livestock pastured on public lands. Feeding of hay was prohibited formerly, for-merly, but the new rules would forbid the feeding of any supplement except salt, although permission could be granted by the authorized official. One well-read rancher exclaimed, "All the agriculture magazines - and Ph.D.'s if they're worth anything - say to use supplemental sup-plemental feeding on public lands. They expect us to go out there and make a living and then they cut our throats. Why would they do a silly damned thing like that?" The ranchers also objected ob-jected to being held responsibile for littering on their allotments, and they wanted to know what BLM was going to do with the hunters and pot-hunters who abuse public lands. Another issue of concern was that of wild horses and burros: "Unless they are killed every few years, they are going to take all the forage. How is BLM going to control these wild horses and burros?" A Kanab rancher said, "We have a chance for input in making management plans but there is a problem with the burros -- they have more supporters than we livestock people." There were strenuous objections to the $25 tran-sferral-change of status fee proposed, but a rancher at |