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Show ; National Forests Are To Carry ; More Livestock To meet I he war needs of the country coun-try sheep and callle will be crazed on the National Forests this year in increased in-creased numbers.- Forester Graes slates that half a million more sheep and nearly a quarter million more cat tie will Ire given permits this year than last. This will bring the toial number of slock grazed under permit per-mit In about nine million sheep, 2,-300,000 2,-300,000 cattle, and 51,000 swine. An increase was made last year uheii it was first recognized that the country's need for beef, mutton, wool and hides called for the fullest use possible of the National Forest ranges. Willi (hecouutry at war, the Secretary of Agriculture Telt that it was advisable to lake some chances on overgrazing in Ihe larger interest of iiuinediale production. The results re-sults of admitting a greater number of slock last year wore closely watched, watch-ed, and the increased numbers this year are made possible mainly by finding how additional stock can be (razed without injury to the ranges through more intensive inclliods of use. Among these methods ate readjustments read-justments in Ihe allotments of range, closer utilization of the forage, and the opening up of country heretofore hereto-fore not used for the grazing of stock. New areas have been made accessible through the construction of trails and driveways and the development of watering facilities. The largest increases have been made in the Colorado and Wyoming Forests; but increases on Ihe already fully slocked forests of Utah, Nevada, Nev-ada, and southern Idaho have been made wherever the foret officials have thought that the ranges will be able to carry the increased numbers of stock. |