The Winslow mail., 1923-03-30
OF WESTERN STATES
OPTIMISTIC FROM RESULTS OF
CONSTRUCTIVE FOREST SER
VICE CONFERENCE AT OGDEN.

| The recent conference between rep
reSentative livestock associations of
the western states and officials of
/ the Forest resulted in very con-
/ structive understanding between Us
ers of the National Forests for graz
! ing purposes and the Administrative
officials of the Forest Grazing Dep
artmentS.
The conference was called at the
request Of Col Greeley, Chief Forest
er, and all livestock associations in
! the western states were represented
! by one or more delegates, Saturday,
| March 10, was set aside by the For
est officials to be thrown open to the
Livestock delegates, for presenting
their views and opinions as to chan
! ges and recommendation in the For
est Service Grazing regulations.
Early in the week the delegates
were submitted list of questions
relative to proposed changes in the
| Use Book of Grazing Regulations
Col. Greeley asked that the Livestock
delegates meet and act on these ques-
tions and then present their findings
to him in the open meeting on March
10 The same questions were also
handed over to various Forest Off
cial representatives to so act upon
and were to be submitted to Col
Greeley at later date, March 13.
The delegates finished their action
on the questions the evening of the
9th, all well satisfied and standing
solidly together as to the answers
drafted and gone over. Then, on the.
morning Of the 10th, combined
meeting of the stOckmen's committee
with the Forest Committee was con-
vened by Col. Greeley. Here each
question was thoroughly discussed in
detail and stockmen's views and eX-
plantations given, together with re-
marks by those of the Forest Service
officials present.
Mr.. Vernon Metcalf, Secretary of
the Nevada Land and Livestock AS
sOciatiOn, was spokesman for the
stockmen at this joint meeting, being
assisted by various delegates where
necessary, in explanation of the an
swers to the questions.
Col. Greeley, while not committing
himself on any subject, gave a gener-
al feeling of confidence, and the live
stock delegates were inclined to be-
lieve that the Users of the National
Forest were going to get results from
the Ogden conference.
AS far as the matter of grazing
fees is concerned on National Forests
the Forest Service is firmly commit
ed to its present policy of range ap-
praisal and, looking to this appraisal
as applied to the southwest states,
many delegates felt that this southern
section OF the Forest using states
would be much better off if this range
appraisal is completed.
The suggestions and answers to thu
questions made by both the stock as
sociatiOn delegates and those by the
Forest officials, are now being duly
considered by a committee of the
various district Grazing Chiefs and
the Washington office. After this
committee has made it's changes in
the regulations, and these changes
are approved by Col. Greeley, the
stockmen of the western states again
have a chance to argue on the newly
drawn regulations.
Thus, before departing from Ogden
the various delegates of the live stock
associations deemed it advisable to
select a committee of six three rep
resenting sheep organizations and
three cattle associations. The idea
was to select representatives from
the various sections of the country
as a whole.
This committee of six are-for the
sheep men, F r Marshall Secy.
National Wool Growers Assn; Ma
nuel B. Otero of New Mexico; and
Worth Lee of Idaho The represent
atives for the cattlemen are Vernon
Metcalf, Secy. Nevada Land and
Livestock Assn Richard Dillon of
Colorado; and Pen. S. Hildreth of
Arizona.
This committee should receive
within a very few weeks the tentative
drawn regulations, and no doubt at
such time the six chosen men will
meet in some western city to argue
upon the presented regulations,
Col. Greeley stated to Harry b.
Embach, the delegate from the Ari-
zona Cattle Growers Assn. that he
was willing to go the limit on any
reasonable changes in the grazing
regulations of the Forest Department
and also most of the Forest officials
present so spoke their Willingness.
Following are the questions hand
ed TO Jne llN6SIOCh representative
and the answers as drafted and agre-
ed upon by all the delegates present
One can see by reading these answers +
that the Livestock interests of every
state in the west were carefully
handled and kept in mind by the dele
gates Much good indeed should
transpire from the recent ogden
meeting.
1. REVISED OF THE MANUAL.
What should it contain; broad regu
lations and general instruction versus
specified and definite regulations and
detailed instruction.
REPLYING favor broad regula-
tions and general instructions in the
grazing manual rather than specific
and definite regulations and instruc-
tionS
2. RANGE IMPROVEMENT Pol +
icy governing construction and need |
ed changes in regulations to accom- /
plish it; how shall cost of mainten-
ance be met how far should fencing
Of ranOaS and small allOtmpntS !