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<br /> <br />A BlM range conservationist pauses to discuss range conditions with a permittee high in t"e Colorado Rockies. Below, <br />some 2,000 sheep are en route to their summer range 12,000 feet above sea level. <br /> <br />:itA:l~ <br />.:r-~':', <br />\{.Z{,'< <br /> <br />Bureau of Land Management Programs <br /> <br />Lands administered by the Bureau of Land <br />Management in Colorado amount to more than <br />8 million acres-lands referred to as a .. vi tal <br />national reserve." <br />More than 7 million of the acres are wi thin <br />grazing districts established under the Taylor <br />Grazing Act of 1934. That act and ensuing <br />Executive Orders were the instruments by which <br />the lands were reserved from indiscriminate <br />settlement and use. The lands were not <br />"closed," however, for the national land re- <br />serve in Colorado is used not only for grazing, <br /> <br />64 <br /> <br />but for timber production, wildlife habitat, <br />recreation, and production of minerals. <br />The Bureau of Land Management not only <br />administers those activities on the national <br />land reserve, but is responsible for the surveying <br />and marking of the land and classification <br />according to the highest and best use. Their <br />responsibility extends to timber management, <br />range improvement, protection against fire, in- <br />,sects, and disease, construction of roads, bridges, <br />and water control devices, orderly disposition <br />of the land, and maintenance of the public <br />land records. <br />