Cache Grazing Resources

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THE CACHE GRAZING RESOURCES
Note:  The third of a series of Know Your Forest News Stories
contributed to the Journal by local Forest Officers.
Among the many valuable resources embraced by the Cache
National Forest the forage cover is perhaps the most valuable asset
which a large number of the people of Cache Valley are each year
able to use.  The timber on the Cache Forest is valuable of course;
its value is increasing daily.  The water supoly is indispensable;
it must be preserved.  The forage resources, however, are today
the basis of a great going industry, the range livestock industry
and accordingly the attention which is devoted to this phase of
forest management on the Cache Forest surmounts any other interest
except the general policy of conservation through protection.
The livestock industry is the third largest in Utah. ?7fo
of the feed for the beef cattle, horses and sheep comes from ranges
similar to the range within the Cache For st.  Of the 500,000 beef
cattle and horses raised in Utah 29% use summer range on National
Forests.  Of the 2,300,000 sheep, Z2%  use forest range.  The value
of the animals which use our National Forests* is over $10,000,000.
GRAZING VALUES HIGH ON THE CACHE
Among the Utah National Forests the Cache ranks as one of
the highest in point of value for grazing.  Over 100,000 sheep and
24,000 cattle and horses, representing values on the hoof of well
over two million dollars, each year s^end many months on the high
cojI slopes of the mountains east of Cache Valley and. on the smaller
divisions of the forest to the south, west and north of the main