38 NATIONAL FOREST MANUAL GRAZING. 



Resident owners of stock which belong in the State or Territory in 

 Nonresidents which a National Forest is located will be given the 

 preference, but owners of stock coming from adjoin- 

 ing States will also be considered when the Forest is the natural range 

 of the stock, and the nonresident owners are dependent upon it. 

 Caution should be exercised in admitting transient stock to ranges 

 Transient owners w ^ cn are not f u % occupied by the stock of regular 

 ' users. A permit may be granted an owner who is 

 a transient resident in the locality with the understanding that it 

 gives no permanent grazing preference. 



A person leasing stock or running it on shares or herding it for the 



permittee is regarded as an employee only and he can 



^Lessees and herd- nO ^ e allowed any preference in the use of the range 



by virtue of the fact that he has run the stock under 



lease or on shares or has handled it for the owner. The status of the 



owner determines all preferences allowed in the issuance of grazing 



permits. 



Grazing preferences can only be retained by a continual use of a 



range. Applicants who apply to graze a reduced 



r? B ntion of pref " number of stock can not expect range to be reserved 



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for them for a higher number later on. In the case 

 of a voluntary reduction other applications may be approved for the 

 number by which the first permit was reduced. The preference thus 

 gained will not be surrendered because the first permittee applies a 

 year or two later to graze the original number of stock. 



Applications from persons with established preferences will not be 

 disapproved for nonuse of the range during one year 



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if a statement giving satisfactory reasons is filed with 

 the Supervisor before the opening of the grazing period, so that the 

 Supervisor may make temporary disposition of the vacant range. 

 Permits allowing the temporary use of such a range should stipulate 

 that a renewal of the permit may not be allowed during the following 

 year. 



Nonuse of a range by a new applicant will cause him to forfeit all 

 preference which has been allowed him. 



Permittees employed by the State or Government, wishing to dis- 

 continue the use of the range without losing their 

 employees' Federal preferences, may do so by filing a statement of their 

 employment and probable duration, the disposition 

 made of their stock, and authorizing the Supervisor to dispose of 

 their range privileges. Upon the expiration of their term of service 

 their preference in the allotment of permits may be restored to them 

 subject to any reductions or restrictions effective at the date of their 

 reapplication. 



Except in the case of Federal or State employees, nonuse of the 

 range for more than one year will cause the permittee to lose all 

 preference on account of prior use of the range. 



Where the renewal of a permit is allowed a purchaser of stock, a 



written waiver (Form 763) of all claims by the original 



en^ aiver f prefer " permittee to a renewal of the permit for the stock 



sold should be filed with the Supervisor. This leaves 



the Supervisor free to renew the permit to the purchaser, if such action 



is justified, but no action should be taken by the Supervisor which in 



any way obligates the Forest Service to allow a renewal of the permit. 



