The early luxury of free forage on unclaimed western public domain
allowed the building of fortunes in cattle and sheep and offered
opportunities to successive waves of settlement. But the western
public lands could not last. The range became overgrazed,
overstocked, overcrowded. Animals were lost, much range was
irreversible damaged, and even violence occurred as cowmen,
sheepmen, and settlers competed for the best forage.
Congress intervened by designating the U.S. Forest Service as the
pioneer grazing control agency. The Forest Service's controls
represent not only attempts to protect a resource but also a social
experiment designed to prevent the monopolization of rangelands by
large outfits and to encourage small enterprises.
The Forest Service has become the undisputed leader in bringing
order, rationality, and economic use to the range resources under
government supervision. The problems and continuing challenges of
the task emerge in these pages.
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