NATIONAL FOREST MANUAL. 



TRESPASS REGULATIONS. 

 FIRE TRESPASS. 



Regulation T-l. The following acts are prohibited on lands of 

 the United States within National Forests: 



(A) Setting on fire or causing to be set on fire any timber, brush, 

 or grass: Provided, however, That this regulation shall not be con- 

 strued to prohibit the building of necessary camp fires or other fires 

 for domestic or manufacturing purposes. 



(B) Building a camp fire in leaves, rotten wood, or other places 

 where it is likely to spread, or against large or hollow logs or stumps, 

 where it is difficult to extinguish it completely. 



(C) Building a camp fire in a dangerous place, or during windy 

 weather, without confining it to holes or cleared spaces from which 

 all vegetable matter has been removed. 



(D) Leaving a camp fire without completely extinguishing it. 



TIMBER TRESPASS. 



Regulation T-2. The following acts are prohibited on lands of 

 the United States within National Forests : 



(A) The cutting, killing, destroying, girdling, chipping, chopping, 

 boxing, injuring, or otherwise damaging, or the removal of any tim- 

 ber or young tree growth except as authorized by law or regulation 

 of the Secretary of Agriculture. 



(B) The damaging or cutting, under any contract of sale or permit, 

 of any living tree before it is marked or otherwise designated for 

 cutting by a Forest officer. 



(C) The removal from the place designated for scah'ng, measuring, 

 or counting of any timber cut under contract of sale or permit until 

 scaled, measured, or counted, and stamped by a Forest officer. 



(D) The stamping, except by a Forest officer, of any timber belong- 

 ing to the United States, either with the regulation marking tools or 

 with any instrument having a similar design: Provided, That timber 

 lawfully cut from public land which is subsequently included within 

 a National Forest may be removed within a reasonable time after the 

 inclusion of such land in a Forest : Provided further, That the term 

 "timber" as used in this regulation shall be deemed and taken to 

 mean trees of a character or sort that may be used in any kind of 

 manufacture or the construction of any article, or for fuel. 



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