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Show 10 DETERMINE THE IMBED OF SHEEP TO BE GRAZED Mark Anderson, an employe of the forest service, who has spent the past winter In Ogden, left for Mont-pelier, Mont-pelier, Idaho, today to make preliminary prelim-inary arrangements for carrying on the grazing reconnaissance work during dur-ing the coming summer on the Caribou Cari-bou national forest The party which Mr. Anderson will head will assemble assem-ble at Montpeller about May 15 to begin active field work. According to local forest officials, the Caribou national forest Includes the well known summer sheep ranges in the Soda Springs country in southeastern south-eastern Idaho. These ranges have been the mecca -of many of the Utah and southern Idaho flocks for the past twenty-five years, and are considered con-sidered by the sheepmen as probably the best lamb producing ranges in the southern part of the state. Forestry officials stated today that grazing permits will be issued for the coming summer allowing over 300.000 hee-i of sheep and 11,000 head of cattlo and horses to graze on this national forest for-est during the coming summer season. sea-son. The heavy demand for range and intensity of use have lead the forest service to undertake a very thorough survey of the forage resources on the Caribou, with a view to securing such information, along both practical and scientific lines, as will be necessary to determine the fullest possible use of the range that may be allowed I without danger of impairing a sustained sus-tained forage and timber production on the land. With this object In view an intenshc grazing reconnaissance was begun last year and 280,000 acres of the forest covered. The remaining re-maining 400,000 will be completed by Mr. Anderson and his party this year. When the work i6 done, the forest service will have a complete inventory inven-tory of the forage resources and range conditions and will be In a position posi-tion to Inaugurate a plan of grazing management which will result of the maximum output of livestock products pro-ducts with definite assurance at the same time that the range will perma nently support the number of stock which is allowed to use it |