Show LA SAL SM SALVO the secretary of agriculture has SO 90 head of cattle and head of sheep under regular pai paid id permits on the la sal national forest during the season of 1937 in addition to the bov head of cattle and horses re a allowed to be grazed free of harge to campers travelers and in connection with their perm permitted bitted operations and bona fide settlers residing or conting v ius i us to the la sal national forest term permits which expire in 1943 1945 will be issued this year to all permit tees who can qualify with rommen rom commensurate wate ranch property no terri tern permits will be issued for more than the maximum limit of cattle or 2500 sheep no reduction or increases are to be made this year in ili the tl c regular permitted numbers all of the stock associations and pei permit mit tees which have been contacted have promised their cooperation in putting into practice on the ground better range management policies with the idea in mind that it will not be necessary to make range protection reductions in the future the la sal records indicate that at the time we have constructed stock watering development projects most of which have abeen been constructed in the past five years we have also constructed 41 44 4 1 miles milea of range fence these water dr developments and range fences were all constructed with the object of improving the range in furnishing a more uniform utilization our plans call for many more range improvement i projects the cooperation of Istock stockmen stoc kmen men is expected in the selection of worthy projects good range management makes possible a maxi maximum muni amount of use over a long period of tune time to obtain this long period of use plants must out cut be gr drzal zal too heavily or before they reach what is known as vegetative readiness in other words P L r use is the ing objective in good mana management gernen t grazing r fees ees i the average 1937 rate for cattle ais 5 cents lower and that fr sheep 1 3 cents higher than in 1936 I 1 the cattle fee represents approximately I 1 87 percent and the sheep fee 81 percent of the 1931 base rate in other words the cattle fee is 13 percent lower and the sheep fee 19 aara oal trecil aamot ibao luaa juao iad letters of transmittal covering 1937 fees will be mailed to permit tees within the next week or ten days snow surveys sun rys during the coming coining week ranger I 1 owen al despain will make his an nual snow survey on bald mesa and ranger ivan christensen will cover the snow courses on buck b beard d flat personnel supervisor L D heywood was a visitor to the regional office at ogden saturday in connection with the la sal allotment conference mr L P larson regional supervising mechanic visited the la sal from saturday march 19 to monday march 22 mr ben schubert regional inspector inspected ci camp amp at moab and the side camp mont ti cello tuesday mr ken griffith superintendent of the soil conar camp which is tu be established at moal about may 1 is visiting camp and inspecting the floud flood control has haa been done to date under the supervision of the forest foreit service on mill and pack creeks mr griffith addressed the local lions club monday evening and outlined the work which his camp expects to do weather 45 inches of rain fell in moab monday and tuesday filling the forms on oil mill AIM creek with water anaf and thus delaying delasin g the work for at least a lay day while the pumps are emptying the water out two inches of snow fell in the mountains monday for cing the crew operating the rock crush to lay off temporarily I 1 baseball manager bill mines hines earnestly entreats that somebody submit aa a name e for our softball team bill says if someone soon submit a name j he will name the team himself and claim the prize |