Taylor+Grazing+Act

1934 Dust Bowl begins in Midwest (1934)

=** Taylor Grazing Act (1934) **=

Description: President Roosevelt signed this law because he intended to "stop injury to the public grazing land… by preventing overgrazing and soil deterioration; to provide for their orderly use, improvement, and development…” The Act set out to conserve public grazing lands from being degraded too quickly. Governmental policies were used to prevent erosion and to develop the land appropriately. The U.S. Grazing Service was created to establish an effective way to control grazing in the western states.

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