Wesley Calef
Private Grazing and Public Lands: Studies of the Local Management of the Taylor Grazing Act.
The University of Chicago Press, 1960. First edition. xviii/292 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.75", is bound in is bound in green cloth, with stamped black lettering to spine. Book is in fine condition, with firm binding, clean and bright interior. Price-clipped dust jacket displays light shelfwear.
"The Taylor Act of 1934 allows public domain land in western states to be leased to cattle-raisers for grazing purposes. Mr. Calef here makes a thorough and independent study of the day-to-day administration of the act, choosing the various basins in and around the Middle Rocky Mountains as representative of the diversity of problems which have to be faced.
For each basin the author sketches the natural land pattern, this history of land use, land tenure, and range-utilization arrangements. He examines the workings of the Taylor Act in the light of these data and considers the varying results that have been achieved and the reactions of local ranchers whose activities are regulated in part by the responsible federal agency -- the Bureau of Land Management."