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tinue effective and would be vigorously enforced pending a final de- 

 cision, followed by the granting of a request for a rehearing of the cases 

 by the Supreme Court, restrained any general movement to willful 

 trespass; but in a number of cases it was necessary to protect the 

 Forests by injunction proceedings. Criminal action on willful grazing 

 trespass has been and will be deferred until this decision is rendered. 



There were 342 cases of grazing trespass during the year, and 42 

 cases were pending at the beginning of the year. Of this number 56 

 were dismissed by the Forest Service, 9 were prosecuted in the courts, 

 203 were adjusted upon the payment of damages, and 116 were pend- 

 ing at the close of the year, a majority of them having occurred too 

 late for adjustment. 



ADVISORY BOARDS. 



Ten new advisory boards of local organizations of stock growers 

 were recognized. Fifty-six advisory boards are now recognized and 

 very effectively cooperating with the Forest Service. The men se- 

 lected to represent them in their dealings with the Forest Service have 

 been uniformly of a high standard of elficiency and experience, and in 

 the majority of cases their recommendations have been disinterested 

 and impersonal to a degree. The District Foresters have found their 

 cooperation very valuable. Many stockmen have criticised the graz- 

 ing administration as arbitraiy, for upon Forests where there is no 

 organization of local stockmen the conflicting demands of several 

 hundretl permittees often necessitate decisions which to a large mi- 

 nority appear radical or arbitrary. Where advisory boards are rec- 

 ognized the stockmen themselves help settle such questions. The 

 boards receive advance notice of any proposed changes in adminis- 

 tration, and their recommendations are, so far as possible, carried out. 

 In late years no one factor has contributed more to good grazing ad- 

 ministration than the advisory boards. 



PERMITS. 



Paid grazing permits were issued as follows : 



Cattle, horses, and hogs. 



Sheep and goats. 



