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Show Official Calls For Increase In Grazing Fees Clarence L. Forsling, Interior Department consultant, said recently, re-cently, according to press dispatches dis-patches from Washington, D. C, that public range lands in the West need to be reappraised to determine a "reasonable" and higher grazing fee. Forsling is former head of the grazing service, U. S. Dept., of Interior and at one time was head of U. S. Forest Service Experimental Ex-perimental Range in Utah. Forsling Fors-ling made his statement in answer an-swer to complaints from a conference con-ference of 35 "so-called" conservation con-servation groups that public grazing fees are too low. Allen Shirley of the Society of American Foresters said government gov-ernment was "subsidizing" the segment of the cattle industry that uses these lands. He said the fee of eight cents per head per month was ridiculously ridicu-lously low compared to the 31 cents charged for grazing on forest land. Ira Gabrielson, former chief of the Fish and Wild Life Service, Serv-ice, now with the Wild Life Management Man-agement Assn., also "put in his oar." He said there should be stronger enforcement of grazing restrictions. He recommended that grazing advisory boards in elude representatives from interests in-terests outside the cattle industry. indus-try. He said advisory boards now act "without any regard other than getting the maximum use of grass." |