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Desert Fears In Range Area Substantiated
A 49er era warning revived by F A Silcox head of forestry service in a Senate report shows the Great American range may revert to desert through grazing abuse soil erosion and misguided land policy The 725 million acre range spans the Dakotas Nebraska Oklahoma and Texas with only 16 percent improved and 2 percent bettered in 30 years The remedy calls for ending depletion reduce stock numbers restore range feed place lands under competent management and rebalance private and public ownership
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