EFFICIENT REGULATION OF GRAZING IN RELATION TO 

 TIMBER PRODUCTION ^ 



By J. T. Jardinr 



Inspector of Gracing, U . S. Forest Service 



I am by no means sure that this paper presents anything new on 

 the subject announced. From correspondence, reports, and contact 

 with field officers during the past few years, however, it has struck me 

 that further consideration of the major data available might be worth 

 while with a view of deciding more fully their meaning and their 

 application in the management of the National Forests. No attempt 

 is made to review investigations and experience outside of the United 

 States, partly because I am not qualified for such a task and because I 



ive found difficulty in considering data available in the Forest 

 Service alone within the limits of this paper. It is not intended that 



he data or conclusions apply to eastern forests. 



RESULTS OF INVESTIGATIONS 



In 1897, at the request of the Department of the Interior, Mr. 

 Frederick V. Coville, representing the Department of Agriculture, 

 made an investigation of forest growth and sheep grazing in the 

 Cascade Mountains of Oregon. The reason for the investigation 

 is clear from the opening sentence of Mr. Coville's published report ^ 

 as follows : 



"For the past few years a bitter controversy has been waged in Oregon on 

 the question of grazing sheep in the Cascade Range Forest Reserve." 



This reserve contained 4,492,800 acres embracing the main ridge 

 of the Cascades and a broad strip on either slope. 



The follovN'ing quoted from Mr. Coville's published report represents 

 his conclusion regarding forest growth and sheep grazing : 



"Over most of the reserve the actual damage to the young growth of tim- 

 ber is up to the present time confined chiefly to small areas, such as bedding 

 grounds and routes of travel. In such situations the young pines, low enough 



' Address before the Washington, D. C, Section, Society of .American For- 

 esters, December 11, KtlO. 



^ Coville, F"rederick W, Forest C.rowth and Sheep Grazing in the Cascade 

 Mountains of Oregon. U. S. Dept. of Agr.. Div. of Forestry, Bull. No. 1"), 1S98. 



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