Abstract Most privately owned ranges lie either on forest lands or immediately adjacent at slightly lower elevations. Generally they are spring, summer, or fall ranges which are in a more or less seriously impaired condition because of overgrazing and droughts. This impairment greatly reduces their value in the production of forage and the protection of watersheds, and raises many difficult problems of management and administration. The author discusses in detail the objectives of range improvement and the progress so far made in bringing it about, with special reference to the assistance now offered by public agencies to private owners. Widespread planning and coordinated action by ranchers generally is essential to obtain satisfactory and permanent results.
William T. White (Fri,) studied this question.