John E Armstrong
CITATION
Armstrong, JE (1942) A study of grazing conditions in the Roaring River District, Kings Canyon National Park. Report to Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. Photographed in Park archives, Three Rivers, CA.
SEE BLACK (1952) FOR PHOTOS
WRITTEN SUMMARY
This report of grazing conditions and related data of the Roaring River District, Kings Canyon National Park, has come through the trials of observation, investigation, and research; it is tempered by adequate deliberation and consultation. The writer has done everything possible to make this survey a pertinent contribution to Park land and grazing management. Repeated emphasis upon destructive grazing practices may help to alleviate the unnecessary drains upon a Nature which has been so lavish to start with, and which throughout our misuse, has been so forgiving and patient to heal the wound made by heedless human usage.
Much credit is due to Mr. E. Lowell Sumner, Regional Biologist, who has given so freely of his time and encouragement.
Indebtedness is owed to all the cattle permittees and their riders, as well as to Ranger Paul Richards who helped with setting up the sample plots at Quartz Meadows.
Mr. Lee Lowery of Visalia, who was the first man to take cattle to Rowell Meadows, gave some interesting and helpful historical facts.
This entire work could well be dedicated to the patient help of Mrs. Armstrong who did all the errands, weighed the grasses and was general secretary and statistician throughout. However, it is more fitting to enshrine the soils and forage of Roaring River. To them then – to their preservation, reestablishment and most efficient utilization – this effort is dedicated.