The range rider
By: Grazing Service
Contributors: United States. Department of the Interior. Division of Grazing; United States. Grazing Service
Publisher: U.S. Department of the Interior, Grazing Service
Published: 1939
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Subjects: Periodicals; Officials and employees; Grazing districts; Management; Public lands; Employees; United States. Department of the Interior. Division of Grazing; United States; United States. Grazing Service; United States. Bureau of Land Management; Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); Taylor Grazing Act (United States)
Other titles: Grazing bulletin; Range rider of the Grazing Service
Description: The Range Rider was an agency newsletter issued to the employees of the U.S. Grazing Service (formerly known as the Division of Grazing) during 1939-1942. The purpose was to establish closer contacts and relationships among the U.S. Grazing Service employees and communicate new rules of conduct relative to the operation of the Taylor Grazing Act, as outlined by the new Director, Richard H. Rutledge. The publication contained condensed statements of important happenings, accomplishments, acts, decisions, and proceedings in the Division and certain personal glimpses; promoted good fellowship in the organization; and, provided an open channel, often flavored with a certain degree of informality, for keeping the men and women of the Grazing Service in touch with the aims, ideas and activities involved in the program. The transfer of many of the Grazing Service employees into the military, along with wartime shortages of materials, probably led to the demise of the publication in 1942.
Notes: Published weekly 1939-1940 ; published monthly 1941-1942.

No date.

"78563."

Assumed issue: volume 1, no. 16.

Assumed date: October 10, 1939.

"The Rider is published by authority of the Secretary of the Interior as administrative information concerning important happenings, accomplishments, and aims of the Grazing Service for the information of the personnel of this Service. Not for publication."--Volume 4, no. 9, page [16].

Special Defense Issue was published on December 20, 1941, in response to the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Historical and background information provided by Glen Collins, Public Lands Foundation Archives.
Table of contents: title: Welcome Mrs. Rutledge! -- ; title: Chicago conference : Federal land-management agencies meet with Santa Fe Railroad Company -- ; title: Office visitors -- ; title: District no. 53 : Secretary Ickes authorizes establishment of Montana Grazing District No. 6 -- ; title: Obituary : Susan Harley (mother of Marion Nielan) -- ; title: Hi Vi! Viola Voelkner vacations in Washington -- ; title: Safety staff meeting : Salt Lake City, Utah, October 2-4, 1939 -- ; title: Files committee -- ; title: Our traveling men -- ; title: What price America? Thirty-ninth program of radio series will feature the Taylor Grazing Act, October 28 -- ; title: District names : call for suggestions -- ; title: Correction to vol.1, no.15 : Grazing Service in the Interior Department Recreation Association Bowling League -- ; title: USAC forestry school ranks high.