PREFERENCES. (Reg. G-8.) 



Applicants for grazing permits will be given preference in the 

 following order: 



Small near-by owners. A class A owner is one who does not own 



j sg more than the protective limit number of stock 



established for the Forest, who owns and resides 

 upon an improved ranch within or adjacent to the Forest, and who 

 is dependent upon the use of the National Forest range in connection 

 with his ranch property. Until the protective limit is defined it is 

 within the discretion of the Supervisor to determine whether an 

 applicant is a large or small owner. A firm or corporation can not 

 be considered as a class A applicant but may be allowed exemp- 

 tion from reduction below the protective limit. 



All other regular occupants of the range. Class B includes owners of 



Class B improved ranch property and stock in excess of the 



protective limit, and owners of stock either above or 



below the protective limit who do not own improved ranch property. 



Copartnerships, companies, and corporations may be class B owners. 



All permittees in this class must secure their permits on the basis of 



prior use and occupancy or the purchase of the stock and ranches 



of persons holding permits. 



There may be several grades of class B applicants. One who owns 

 a large amount of improved ranch property, or one who resides in the 

 vicinity of the Forest, or who has used the range during a long period 

 of years, or who feeds his stock during the winter, may be given 

 preference over one who does not own improved ranch property 

 adjacent to the Forest, or who resides at a distance from the Forest, 

 or who has only used the range a few years, or who winters his stock 

 on the range. Class B permittees are subject to sliding-scale reduc- 

 tions, although usually such reductions are not applied to permits 

 for less than the protective limit. 



Owners of transient stock. Class C embraces all grazing applicants 



class c no ^ ^ a ^ nn S within classes A and B. A speculator who 



buys stock and places it upon the range at intervals, 



or the nomadic stockman with no fixed range who trails his stock to 



widely separated ranges would be class C owners. Class C applicants 



will be entirely excluded from the Forest before any reduction is 



made upon class B applicants. 



An applicant's status is determined by the total number of all 



classes of stock owned by him. He can not be a 



by s h a oid s in d g e s teri a class A cattle owner and a class B sheep owner. ^ If 



he owns either class of stock in excess of the protective 



limit for that class he is a class B owner, or if he owns a per cent of the 



cattle protective limit and also a per cent of the sheep protective 



limit, which combined exceed 100 per cent, he is in class B. For 



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