some ideas for language for your protection but it is going to take some 

 drafting and you're going to spend some money in doing it. It is not going 

 to be two pages, it's liable to be ten before he gets through writing in all 

 provisions that should be in there. I would suggest to you if you do that, 

 get in touch with Bob Ross or Pete Jackson or somebody in the Range Manage- 

 ment circle and get copies of this lan^age that we put together. Let me 

 tell you in general terms what we provided for in a short term lease. 



Provide for a stocking rate agreed on by the landowner and potential 

 lessee. We define animal tmits as the equivalent of one cow and one calf 

 or the forage they require for one year. Require that the lessee keep ac- 

 curate records of the manner in which he grazes the property, so the land- 

 owner knows he is abiding by an agreed upon stocking rate. I tried to use 

 the term carrying capactiy, but Bob Ross wouldn't let me and he was right. 

 We are talking about stocking rate. The number of cows you are going to 

 put in for a period of time. This thing over a period of years provides, 

 as we have written in here, for an annual assessment of range condition by 

 a range management professional and then provides for a new stocking rate 

 for the subsequent year based upon the assessment. 



If you have such provisions in your lease or contract, the grass cover 

 will be preserved and you will have fewer disputes about overgrazing. 



Thank you for allowing me to attend this meeting. 



Perry J. Moore , Two Dot, Montana, who presented this speech at the Governor's 

 Conference on Montana Rangeland, graduated from Montana State University with 

 a degree in Agricultural Economics. He received his legal degree and was 

 admitted to the bar in I968. 



Mr. Moore served in the Montana State Senate and was Minority Floor Lead- 

 er from 1973-74. He was a member of several select committees including 

 Judiciary, Labor, Fish and Game and Livestock. 



Perry Moore is a director for the Montana Stockgrowers Association and 

 the Montana Legal Services Association. He also serves as President for the 

 Wheatland County Stockgrowers and Wheatland County Farm Biireau. 



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