| Show GRAZING SHEEP tho the forest service has issued a bulletin stating that a misunderstanding which officers of we th e service consider very regrettable ha has arisen in the state of idaho in regard tj the number of sheep to to do grazed on the sa sawtooth tooth national forest during the season of 1909 and it has taken several long telegrams Id between tween governor gooding and gifford pinchot to explain matters last year the total dumdei number allowed was of which but sheep were actually grazed on this thir forest tho the allotment ane present resent season was or moru mort alan th an actually grazed last year in anticipation of demand r range ange from new owners a sliding scale was prepared and the supervisor was instructed ted tod A to reduce the large owners or on the basis of this scale in order to provide range tor for new applicants and other persons entitled to share in its use who did not nol use it last s season eason the publication of this sliding scalo scale has been accepted by governor arnor gooding as an indication that a reduction hi has been made in tho the total number of sheep allowed in his last fe telegram delegram governor gooding concludes by ashing have the s heep men of idaho from their fag ures not a right to believe it is your intention to destroy their industry answering this me forester says say that the ton thousand limit does not mean that large permits will bo be reduced to that number but simply pro vents increase by purchase beyond ten tea thousand it if idaho sheep men object to protection of silla owners in 2 this way I 1 take issue with them the forest service has worked consistently and effectively for the permanent prosperity of the sheep industry throughout the west by enforcement of regulations necessary to protect the range and rights of others where reductions are necessary for to these purposes they will be maae idaho sheep men have no justification whatever for tho the assumption that unnecessary reductions will be made I 1 or of that the forest service is attempting to destroy their industry jt it is evident gifford pinchot an aal 1 taji i i t j i irl s able lieutenants have jio no desiro desire to injure ura any one or any industry they ar belaboring ela boring to make rules which will lest best conserve the national resources and yet allow sheep men and others to graze their sheep and live stock within the national forests but however careful they may be or worthy their ot icet criticism will be directed direct el at them by those who are prone to be contentious arid and unfair in th their I 1 19 ir demands |
