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Show Range Management, Intermountain District Over 4,500.000 acres of improved ranch land and 22,000,000 acres of grazing graz-ing land are owned by the 27,000 permittees per-mittees who graze 1,459,000 cattle and horses and 6,394,000 sheep and goats on the National Forests. Of the above number of permittees 6,558 of them are in Utah, 3.800 in Idaho and 507 are m Nevada.' They represent in Utah 120.- 158 head of cattle and horses and oa,-895 oa,-895 head of sheep. In Idaho they represent rep-resent 132,837 head of cattle and horses and 1,300,1125 head of sheep. In Nevada they represent 56.699 head of :attle and horses and 307,890 head cf sheep. Over 80,000,000 acres within the National Na-tional Forests supply the needs of permitted per-mitted stock. Approximately 26,000,-300 26,000,-300 acres of this land is in Utah, Idaho, and Nevada. The Forest Service system of range nanagement aims to meet the best needs (1) of the range itself, (2) of the related timber, game water, recreation, and other resources, and (3) of the dependent de-pendent ranch property. Experience and investigations have shown that o-ood range management is good forest for-est "ame and watershed management. " The Forest Service has definite plans of management for 4.415 out of a total of 7 064 range allotments. In the intermountain in-termountain district the headquarters of which is located in Ogden. the percentage per-centage of allotments for which definite defin-ite plans are in effect is much higher. These plans are made in cooperation with the users. The plans provide for the number of stock the allotments will carry without causing permanent iniury to the forage plants, proper distribution dis-tribution over the allotments, proper seasons of use. and a definite scheme to allow the forage plants to ma.ure and produce seed on portions of t'.-allotments t'.-allotments each year. |