About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline
LOG IN
LOG IN

CED-8-241 1 (1978-03-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobachkc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES31 WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 CED8-241 March 9, 1978 j3_14815 The Honorable Paul Laxalt United States Senate- Dear Senator Laxalt: Your February 10, 1978, letter expressed concern over the content of our report entitled Public Rangelands Con- tinue to Deteriorate (CED-77-88, July 5, 1977). and-the general direction of Federal land management in the western States, particularly as related to the 1976 Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Organic Act. You stated that the photographs on pages ii and 14 were misleading. As you recall, we previously responded to you regarding the photographs in the report in a November 3, 1977, letter (CED8-49) from the Director of our Community and Economic Development Division. Since our position on the photographs re- mains the same, I will reiterate the essence of our previous comments. We agree that a more suitable picture could have been used on page ii to portray rangeland deteriorated from over- grazing. We believe, however, that the picture does not sig- nificantly misrepresent conditions of overgrazed land. In subsequent discussions with Bureau officials, we were advised that there exists overgrazed land far more serious than that illustrated in our report. The officials said that, although the land in the photograph had been subjected to a chaining operation, this would not have significantly affected the condition of the land as far as the low-lying vegetation was concerned. Because the land was undergoing restoration, it obviously was deteriorated and, therefore, warranted corrective action. Regarding the pictures on page 14 of our report contrasting overgrazed and good rangeland, we pointed out on the preceeding page that we had visited the grazing areas pictured and that the Bureau had permitted grazing year after year throughout the entire forage-growing season. The field manager showed us several areas where overuse had killed most of the forage. Other land in the general area had hardly been used, even though , .. : :.:,.? 7 .7 :..: : { c . :: . . : 5 - . .+ . . % #z. % ............................................. .-. ....... ::. . - t9 '. -¢', ..{-.:-'. . .. : .. . i: .. : ; : : ..? . . . -.m : .:. ::'.'-.'.a.:.-.,. -- .. . :z- .

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Contact us for annual subscription options:

Contact Us

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

Log In

profiles profiles most