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Show So when Heber started the herd downhill, they knew exactly where to go, heading straight for Miller's Flat, the choice lower meadowland, where the hungry ewes spent several days eating and resting from their surprise experience in the snow. 28 Now back to the Forest. A one-herd sheepman, as John K was, knew that his bread and butter depended on cooperating with the forest regulations. There were times when he was irked by restrictions, but over the years of working and associating with the forest rangers in the Ephraim Office (which administered the affairs of the Manti National Forest) he, and later Bill in his turn, maintained friendly relations with, the forest supervisors.2 9 In 1934 the Taylor-Grazing Act came into being and was later administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), It regulated the use of land outside the boundaries of the United States Forest Service, so the grazing privileges on all lands, other than forest were controlled from that time. At first the fees, or tax on grazing rights, were reasonable in both the forest and the BLM, but gradual increases became, burdensome when prices of wool and lamb were not increased proportionately, All such cost increases of operating were severely felt by range men and hy the larger purehred breeders dependent on grazing their ewes. During the 193Q decade, the sheep population of the United States was around sixty-five million head. But due 234 |
