The county recently approved funding of a program that has proven beneficial in providing information on ways to improve grazing.
The Reading the Range program has helped increase the chance for success for Gila County ranchers, while improving the environment impacted by public grazing.
Ashley Hall with the Gila County Cooperative Extension Service and Lori Brown, chair of the Tonto Natural Resource Conservation District, asked the Gila County Board of Supervisors for $30,000 to support the Reading the Range program at its March 2 meeting.
One of Hallâs major programming efforts is in administering the federally funded Reading the Range monitoring program, which is in place on more than 1 million acres on the Tonto National Forest.