Trail 1 – Land Use in Utah Ranch Starter Kit . Like many other western states, most of Utah’s land is too rocky, Grass for Grazing cold, hot, or dry to grow crops, but it can support livestock. About 80% of the feed consumed by cattle, sheep, and goats could not be eaten 1. Write your name on your or digested by humans. Animals convert low-energy and otherwise cup using a permanent indigestible plant matter into nutrient-dense, protein-rich food, while returning organic matter (manure) to the soil—the original recycling marker. program. Most of Utah’s land is rangeland used for grazing livestock. 2. Place your peat pot into Some rangeland is privately owned by ranchers, but public lands the cup (make sure the end (managed by the federal government) are also used for grazing livestock. with the small hole faces up). Fill the cup half full with Using the map on the next page, answer the following: water. 3. When your peat pot is 1. What color represents privately owned land? completely hydrated, use a pencil to loosen the top ¼ inch of peat moss. 2. Geographically, in Utah where is most of the private land? (Hint: think 4. Evenly spread ½ teaspoon about relation to land and water features, cities, counties, etc.) of seeds on the top of the peat pot. Press the seeds down gently with your thumb so that they contact one another and the damp peat. Capillary action will 3. Which federal agency is responsible for managing the greatest land move the water through the area in Utah? seeds and the soil. 5. Remember to check your pot daily. Keep about 4. How many different Indian reservations (IRs) are there in Utah? List ¼ inch of water in the their names and the name of one nearby city for each reservation: bottom of the cup. Your grass should be up in about a week. Take care of your “ranch!” You will be using the sprouted grass for a future activity. 5. What biome (major type of ecological community) best describes the Utah lands indicated in yellow? a. wetland b. desert c. forest 6. Along what geographical feature is most of Utah’s Forest Service land located? (Hint: think of physical features that share names with many of the national forests) 7. In what part of the state are most of Utah’s water resources? 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Ranch Starter Kit . Ranching in Utah Grass for Grazing Modern day Utah ranchers can trace their roots back to the 1. Write your name on your late 1700s when horses and cattle first appeared in Utah. In cup using a permanent Utah, cattle generate over one-fifth of the cash receipts received marker. from agricultural products and create over $350 million dollars of 2. Place your peat pot into revenue annually. While cattle production is the largest agricultural the cup (make sure the end commodity in the state, Utah is not the largest producer of cattle, with the small hole faces nationally ranking number 28 in production of beef cows (2012). up). Fill the cup half full with Every county in the state produces cattle. Box Elder County in water. northern Utah produces the most cattle. 3. When your peat pot is While most states in the west have had cattle since the time completely hydrated, use a of the early Spanish explorers, Utah cattle history is unique pencil to loosen the top in that it did not develop until the Mormon pioneers began to ¼ inch of peat moss. arrive in the 1840s. Around this same time, prominent mountain 4. Evenly spread ½ teaspoon men Jim Bridger and Miles Goodyear started small herds in the of seeds on the top of the region. Mormon traders purchased Goodyear’s cattle at Fort peat pot. Press the seeds down gently with your Buenaventura (near present-day Ogden) in 1847, effectively thumb so that they contact cornering the Utah cattle market. For the first decade after the one another and the damp settlement of the Utah territory, cattle and sheep were the only peat. Capillary action will major exports. move the water through the Utah settlers bred, bought, and traded for more cattle. Many seeds and the soil. settlers made journeys to other states to bring home cattle, 5. Remember to check your while some businessmen would trade with other settlers passing pot daily.