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Show Grazing Longeron Hobble Creek Allotment Area A significant step forward in range environmental management manage-ment on the 60,000 acre Hobble Creek Allotment was mutually considered by the Forest Service Ser-vice and the cattlemen in Springville on Tuesday. A restoration of 10 days in the length of the grazing season sea-son for 1970 was announced by Supervisor Clarence Thornock. Problems on this allotment came into the public spotlight some 10 years ago when a major ma-jor reduction in grazing use was made due to unsatisfactory range-watershed conditions. Supervisor Thornock' s announcement an-nouncement follows a comprehensive compre-hensive 9-year effort by the permittees, women's clubs, and the Forest Service to improve resource conditions in Hobble Creek, east of Springville. Rehabilitation Re-habilitation work began in 1961 and included several different land treatments such as re-seeding, re-seeding, furrowing, contour trenching, gully plugging, streamback stabilization, road and trail erosion control, construction con-struction of all-purpose roads, herbicide treatment of weeds and undesirable brush, construction con-struction of unit fences, ponds, and other water developments. The Ruby Christensen Memorial Memor-ial Youth Forest, initiated by the Utah Federation of Women's Wom-en's Clubs, is the beginning of a reforestation project on parts of the allotment. The permittees have contributed contrib-uted to the overall program by improving their livestock management man-agement so grazing will be more compatible with watershed, water-shed, timber, fish and wilflife values, recreation, esthetics, and other public resources and uses. The allotment is now being be-ing grazed under an intensive rest-rotation system. Many of the permittees help with the cowboy chores on the range. The new increase in grazing time affects 28 permittees who now graze their cattle on this allotment. Supervisor Thornock Thorn-ock congratulated the cattlemen cattle-men for their management efforts ef-forts and expressed his hopes that additional grazing restorations restora-tions can be made in the immediate im-mediate years ahead as conditions con-ditions continue to improve. |