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Show CLIMAX TO A THREE-YEAR THREE-YEAR CONTROVERSY GOVERNMENT HAS RIGHT TO PROTECT ALL GROWTH ON GOVERNMENT LAND A decision rendered recently by three Federal judges at a conference at Los Angeles Calif., upholds the Government of the United States in its right to take any necessary steps to protect all growth on Government lands by any method within its discretion. dis-cretion. This decision is the climax to a controversy lasting for three years between Forest Sen-ice officials offi-cials and the State of Arizona with respect to. depredations of deer herds in the Kaibab National Forest. The condition of the deer in this forest has been investigated by the Biological Biologi-cal Survey in cooperation with the Forest Service. The cause of the controversy was the plan of Federal officials to arrange for the killing of deer within the forest in- large numbers and at seasons and under conditions not in conformity with the laws of Arizona, in order to check the damage of the increasing herds to forest growth and to limit their numbers num-bers to the forage available. The present decision affirms the right of the Federal Government to make its own rules within the forest. Hunters are not licensed, however, to transport trans-port deer killed on the Kaibab to places in violation of the State game laws. |