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Case 1:04-cv-00786-SGB

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EXHIBIT 21

Case 1:04-cv-00786-SGB

Document 42-22

Filed 08/15/2008

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SACRAMENTO GRAZING ASSOCIATION
February 19,2007

Rager Fran Marinez

P.O. Box 288 Cloudcroft, NM 883 i 7
Dear

Fran,

As we prepar for the 2007 grazing yea, we wat to mae th following requests.
As our allotment has been continuously monitored by Dr. Fowler and the Rage Improvement

Task Force and true scientific methods ofmonitonn have been done, we want to contiue using Dr. Fowler's and the RI"s advice for mangement pmctices. We ar asking you to restore our 553 headcount(source our 1989 Anua Operatig Plan.) Plus tu on date to the sumer patures 5 head of horses. We ar reuesting a May i, 2007 sprig
an we request once agai to open all gates to water soures and use the whole allotment
regarding sumer grazg. Intea of

rotation, lie we did in 2006. We want to see an elk herd

population reduction on the Sacrarnento allotment of percent. We want to open herding trls and wat line righ-of way again and se more bru control on

the allotment is winter and sumer patues. There ar places we would liketo buid corr and traps basd on habitat ne to aid in, magig our allotment, including but not liinte to Wils Cayon Corrals, Hay Canyon Corr and traps;' and others as needed. are continualy watching where the sat should be to best We ar on the allotment daily and
distrbute catte and we want to place salt blocks in old established sating areas, including

Alamo and Cabalero Canyons or to move the sat as we see will be bet.
OUT ability to maintain OUT wate rights, throughout the allotment is most necssa as there are

places on the allotment and times when we need to distbute water in a more beneficial way. Regarding the exclosures, we want to us our water right" and grazing rights We would like to
use our livestock holding traps 2 to 3 weeks every spring and fall as is necessa for catte .

workig. Regardig water us, we want th abilty to pipe water from the Penaco hea watr
springs into a drer in Atkinson Canyon.
pastue first, as this is the most

Should it be necssa to rotate the cate, we want to move from winter to sumer into th south the cattle Conversely, in late sumer we would move natu for them from the south to the nort to mae the cale and habitat as stress free as possible.
We want the removal of the 4 inch stbble height requirement. We are awar tht, that rue only

applies to Saciaento Grag and we wan the sae ruin as al other allotments.

We would lie you as admitrtors to respet oUT experte as land llan¡l1tersJ~ptri,.ll
!niJhlS aUQtment as we have II long. historicalbaekgound in ranching on the Sacramento.

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