created a prairie fire. You see some familiar faces here. Phil Van Cleave, 

 Dr. Walter Houston and a neighbor are studying an area where a lightening 

 caused fire biirned. The light colored plants in the foreground are winter- 

 fat. The dark area on the left side is an unburned area, even though they 

 studied this for some time, there was not a winterfat plant in the unburned 

 area. However, numerous seedlings were found in the burned area. 



This area was not deferred. The picture was taken two years after the 

 fire, there was about five sections biirned. I took this picture on the fire 

 line on the unburned side. You will note fringed sagewart and big sage. 

 The specialists estimated 75^ cover by sage utilizing 75?^ of the available 

 moisture. They figured the biirn killed around d<yfo of the sage. 



Turning the camera to the burned area, we note slender wheatgrass, green 

 needle and winterfat. 



Then we go to native range. Eiveryone can identify this as the Great 

 American Desert and there is quite a few acres throughout the midwest. This 

 area has had non-use for twenty years. Certainly it must be close to cli- 

 max condition. You can see some of the better area. 



Looking closer at this hard pan spot on the left you see a flower, ab- 

 out the only aesthetic value that an "Environmentalist" might see here. We 

 are told that the grass here is thickspike wheatgrass and some inland salt- 

 grass. The plant on the right, as we understand it from the professors of 

 range science, is named bastard toadflax. Now I sort of suspect that it was 

 named by some "environmentalist" who knew an irate cowboy. 



As we go up the hill to see this area with twenty years of non-use, you 

 note the dominant species as fringe sagewart and red threeawn. I don't think 

 we can afford to take the livestock off the range. 



Here we have a three in one shot. The fence line comparison on the left 

 we see the rear end of one cow which most environmentalists would immediately 

 assume that is responsible for the overgrazed condition. But I don't think 

 I will fool anyone here when we look in the center and see all the horse man- 

 ure there. I don't believe that we can feed the hungry millions of the world 

 if we are going to replace domestic livestock on the range, be it private or 

 public, with horses and burros. 



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