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Show Nevada Visitors Make 2-Day Tour At Desert Station Thursday and Friday, May ti and 7, a group of stockmen, representatives represen-tatives of the Nevada extension service, and members of the irrigation irri-gation companies from Clark county, coun-ty, Nevada, as well as two stockmen stock-men from White Pine county, visited visit-ed the Desert Range Experiment station in Pine Valley, 50 miles west of Milford, according to the news letter issued by the Nevada national forest. The visitors were conducted over the area by S. S. Hutchings, in charge of the station. Here they observed the experimental experimen-tal range and pasture setup and the results of experiments being conducted by the Desert branch of the Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment station on the desert winter ranges which are representative rep-resentative of many thousands of acres of Nevada desert range. 'Much of this range has been seriously seri-ously damaged as a result of excessive ex-cessive grazing use. The experiments being conducted conduct-ed at this station are providing concrete information from which it will be determined what the seasonal sea-sonal use ami proper degree of stocking should be in order to rehabilitate re-habilitate these ranges, and after rehabilitation, the proper degree of stocking to insure substantial yfeld of palatable forage. The experiments ex-periments are being conducted through a large number of paddocks pad-docks and smaller experimental enclosures where numbers of stock and seasonal use can be controlled. (Continued on last page) o Nevada Visitors i (Continued from first page) j The relative condition of forage : between areas grazed under "various "vari-ous degrees of intensity, between ; properly managed range and open j range, the very marked difference between range which has been ; grazed to the extent of one sheep to IV2 acres, and that which has been grazed to the extent of one sheep to two acres, the very rapid recovery of desirable forage plants under proper protection, the encroachment en-croachment of unpalatable forage species on overgrazed areas, and the absence of the undesirable ' plant species on well managed and 1 properly stocked areas, the absence ab-sence of gullying and other evidences evi-dences of floods on well managed areas these are all in evidence at the Desert Brjneh Experiment station. |