Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1908-01-31
81 OBJECTS 10 AuTOcRATC IGNORANCE. NOT TO REsERyEs


sheep and cattle ndues took many years expert
ni failure however before learned adapt Themselves in
the conditions which and nexoabe Nature
bad ea around them Bnt the the desert brave and
bgoag sheep industry they been able
prosperity Until the
iW these have had unrestricted liberty to use the
public rang tie right enjoyed by the pioneers Of every
from Maine 70 The Pacific from Minnesota TO the Gulf long
there or s. public
Then government adopted policy segregng por
public reserves the plea pro-
tee,nr against impending agreed
grazing live OK these helpful rather than
harmful kept down the rank underground which fires
feed and spread 10 the expense the small
grazing eved Il advocated by president
forestry enthusiast and announced by the service that these fees
other forestry
The forestry idea seemed good and its administration fair
Even the stock made little protest. most Of them in hearty
accord with the proposition.
About the forestry established
industry stamp
ing branch under
secretary agriculture forestry
bureau asked for and received the cooperation Of each OF the western
When officers necessary Of
cleaning diseased noes herds simply cooperated the
authorities The bureau furnished technical Skill the local
critics furnished practical experience under condionsan ideal
combination Under these conditions cab and kindred live
disappeared from the Idaho range doubt
The elsewhere So quietly has this been done that but persons
aside from those hng direct business with the bureau animal in
dusy Of is existence
Everybody and the strained rea
stocke who once supported it, There
must BE- prime the different
animal industry the forestry bureau depart
ut 81 agriculture and both accepted by the stocmen
equally helpful What IS the difference?
The sockmen accepted promise cooperative
forestry bnrsan they did the operative industry
believing both would be helpful and would the promised heed
lhe local who through bitter experience had learned the ma
imposed their y exacng The
animal industry tie promise implicitly The
livestock not written ia books or taught in colleges
tho pusuan learns q and personalities disease that
dd generations q practical outdoor experience would the
laboratory alon do these 1oe Their these been
ab e 90 marse ia combating disease Theory and practice have
been hamonisd under local conditions The bureau employees act
under authority glad accept AFRO
gaee TIE buap has actually ha m aay only chat has taxi
cn counsel q e men who Know local conditions And the partner
chip works e. taronioy and as hcpuly great engine
b the forestry bufnu dd eofk peaceful /.
end ega foie.sea loyalty every industry connected h
home making promised ration, advisory
appointed m idho and probably IN am sae eyelre
forestry eaIs who could pass brilliant a.
the might hardly ten sheep from badger I'd
nh lay oat the instruct of
~ WITH e range men on The whole theory and practice of range
Where 20 bd h eheop whore drive place mi
these shown by textbook boy bureau decree theoretically m
range may ~ ap"oned by giving each district marked OF Ii
che form q reeaugo In New York meadow il
kansas prar ibis would b. But Idaho range -
10000 feet and every variety of climate
from arid and almost iaess tropical precpa-
ton h viii work on gets range the whore
the feed all eaten dried by midsummer leaving
iess for he rest Of the another all his range the high
where we sno" does not melt until midsummer: his hocks
20 hungry until this The advisory Idaho
i allowed advise would say that the only way aocks
on s bare foothills IN the spring and feed up the mountain sides
the mets away But text books the advisory
board not called is advice is homeseader the
miner the umhefman the ancher goes
fuel M meet the red tape ookh system untempered by local
conditions and needs rules by department and carried
oat BY ooA s civil service ppones apparently plan
% eu 20 listen word Of counsel have spent
lifetime amid the conditions the from the bureau
y animal industry different from ts promises there
BE- ans thing bur fricton7
Then @ add insult injury service has pursued policy
misrepresentation for tbs evident purpose creating public nt
nent against the the protests OF an an
oyed and harassed West construed forest
reservation idea snd the whole rally
orr OF the bureau The the public range which has
every nation since time began IL held l.