| Show I 1 WHO NEEDS criticizing criticising CRITIC ISING I 1 A number of sheep men were heard recently criticizing criticising critic ising the efforts ot of the camps to prevent further erosion on mountain ranges Poa possibly sibly the work walh la Is boing being done is expensive and only partly effective we hold no brief tor for the camps nor their methods but sheep men as a class anything to tie be phoud of in connect jon ilon with their ranges either cither summer or winter overgrazing year after year and ana in many instances careless herding and too many dogs have reduced large areas to less than fifty per cent of their original carrying capacity erosion lit ii rapidly taking the surface boil LN na these ari arpa arpas as s and leaving gullies whose number width and depth are growing and playing laying havic with the grazing and I 1 the water sheds gliedt on which j gities depend tor for their very exist i ance ten years of 0 good wool and lamb prices with no restrictions as to grazing would put nine tenths of tile hie sheep men out of business thru utter destruction of 0 their so while they are criticizing sheep men inen will do well to take stock of what they are arc doing to be proud of and to chart courses more to theirs and the publics fes interests we know drouth is partly to blame but it if you wish wilh concrete proof that drouth lacks much of being wholly holly responsible notice tile ilie blush on two sides adilea 0 of some of 0 tile fences which run ryver over the hll bill above the south field drouth leave leava thrifty vegetation on out one side bide of a fence and barrenness c ci i the other we shall not be surprised it if in tho the near future many communities demand legislation to protect their watersheds and it even privately owned lands will be subjected to regulations tor for their protection arid and that ot of those whose farms and homes are dependent on the preservation 0 of these areas |
