Excerpt: The stabilization of private range-land enterprises will require the united effort of landowners and of various public agencies. Even with the transfer of 125 million acres of range and crop lands to public ownership, as previously recommended, the total range land in private ownership will still remain high. To insure the sort of private ownership which will meet its responsibilities, many of the existing disadvantages must be removed through a consciously planned program. Such a program involves: (1) Recognition of the stewardship of land; (2) solution of the submarginal land problem; (3) development of socially sound economic range units or their conversion into profitable ones; (4) reduction of inflationary land values; (5) practice of range management, animal husbandry, and game management; (6) control of production; (7) overcoming marketing handicaps; (8) improved credit facilities; (9) more equitable taxation; and (10) research and extension.
