(Prom the U. S. Forest Service.) 



OVBPGBAZFD STOCK 



lU^G-ES CAN COME BACK 



130T R3ISAS3D FOB PUBLIC A.TI01T 

 UXTIL JULY 8, 19.1.5. 



Washington, July 7 The improved condition of the 

 national forest range after regulated grazing is pointed to by ex- 

 p-.-rt-.s of the department of agriculture as a demonstration that 

 areas vhioli have been severely d^naged through overstocking "by 

 sh.e?p and cattle can be brought back to their former carrying 

 power through a system of sufficiently intelligent use* 



Klien the government took charge of the livestock 

 ranges within the national forests some of them were so badly 

 overgrased and oth.3rr^is3 injured from reckless handling of the 

 stock that their gracing v&lue appeared to have been almost en- 

 tirely destroyed. Many of these rangf-s, ...'^cver, have been re- 

 stored and made as valuable as ever,:. On.oeveral of the fo"'?!" f ,s 

 results h?ve more than just, if iod the expectations and the range 

 is in better condition faE;o. it ovsr T, r as< 



Ar_ ejcarople of this ixnprovement is cited in the JTebo 

 naticnal forest, Utah* In 190S. v/hon fc .hat forest was crer.tsd, the 

 rari^ea v^thin the forest boundaries were found to b? bt-ll:/ cver- 

 grazod and trampled because there was a lack of any control or 



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