The Major Range Problems and Their Solution

Tables and Figures included: The Range Area --- Range Depletion Classes Area and Depletion of the Range Types --- Area of Range Types and Forage Depletion --- Range Areas and Depletion by Ownerships --- Depletion Trends of the Last 30 Years --- Thirty-Year Trends in Range Condition --- Excessive Stocking --- The Marketing Differential (Illinois-Nebraska-Idaho) --- Increasing Integration of Range and Crop Agriculture ---Erosion and Silting of Streams --- Erosion by Range Ownerships --- Silting of Major Streams by Range Ownerships --- Range Areas in Reasonably Good and in Poor Condition --- Percentage of Range Ownerships in Reasonably Good Condition --- The National Forests, Indian Reservations, and Established and Proposed Grazing Districts --- Major Range Resource Problems in Terms of Area --- The Restoration Job in Terms of Areas Now Depleted --- Grazing Capacities, Present and Potential, by Ownerships --- Percent of Excess Stocking by Ownerships --- Area of Publicly Owned Range Lands --- Present and Potential Grazing Capacity.