PANEL DISCUSSION 



COORDINATED PLANNING OF INTERMINGLED OWNERSHIP 



Mons Teigen, Panel Moderator 



Thank you Pete. I really enjoyed the morning program here. It brought 

 back a lot of fond memories to see Dr. Dyksterhuis, the Pultons down there, 

 Phil Van Cleave, Dave Revenes and all of the other old timers of the Land 

 Utilization Act days in Eastern Montana. 



I'm reminded of when Dyksterhuis first started on his range techniques 

 for the Soil Conservation Service, he held a workshop in Eastern Montana and 

 at that time they invited two gentiles to their group, that was Dan Pulton 

 and myself. Everybody else was a member of the Soil Conservation Service, 

 but they did let us in on the thing. So we went around and toured Prairie 

 Coiinty and Custer County, looking at various range sites and so on. I was 

 always a pretty good friend of Phil's but I was really never impressed by 

 his ability until we were on that tour. We were up on a knoll down there 

 in pastxire four in Prairie County and Dyke as he used to do, got down on his 

 haunches there on top of this knoll and scratched around at the base of a 

 plant and he pulled up something on the end of this thumbnail. He said, "Can 

 any of you experts here tell me what this is?" One guy goes over and he says, 

 "It kinda looks to me like a, it is ah, seed from ah, Agrophyn Smithii." 

 Another guy comes along and says, "Ah, no, you are all wrong, that's a fe- 

 male floret from buchloe dactyloides." He went on and tried various things 

 and somebody else said, "I don't think that is a seed at all, that's just a 

 piece of sand." He said, "Phil, come over here, do you know what this is?" 

 Phil looked at this thing and says, "It looks like grasshopper dung to me." 

 He said, "You're absolutely right!" So that shows what kind of experts you 

 have in this crowd, when you have guys like Phil Van Cleave. That's a true 

 story too, isn't it Phil? 



Well, to start this program off, I would like to set a few ground rules. 

 Since I'm the moderator, I guess I have the right to decide how the fist 

 fight is going to be handled. 



First of all, we'd like to have all of our panel participants move up 

 here to the front table. We will give each one of them the opportunity to 

 make a brief statement and following their total presentation, we will en- 



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