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average of a higher caliber and broader outlook than 

 their counterparts in the lumber industry, 



Grazing Interests 



In spots the hostility of grazers toward the forest 

 rangers was noteworthy in the early days. I recall my 

 time in southwest Colorado in 1908 when forest rangers 

 felt it unsafe to go into the Disappointment Country. 

 The Carpenter family in the Gunnison Country was 

 pretty belligerent until one night when Ranger Kreutzer 

 was sharing a cabin with them, Kreutzer suddenly pulled 

 his gun and shot a spider on the ceiling, giving the 

 Carpenters considerable pause in their campaign to 

 terrorize Kreutzer. They respected good shots! 



Apart from individual or advisory board protests 

 against decisions by the Forest Service regarding allot 

 ment boundaries, reduction in permitted numbers for 

 range protection or distribution, bedding out rules, 

 salting places, etc., the organized stockmen have cam 

 paigned in the past for such major objectives as 

 (1) making the grazing use a legal right rather than a 

 privilege, (2) eliminating reductions in permits for 

 distribution, (3) transferring national forest range 



