DAMAGE BY STOCK. (Beg. G-23.) 



Stockmen may and should be required to repair all damage caused 

 by the presence of their stock upon the Forest, but should not be 

 called upon to make the repairs of damage not caused by their stock. 

 It is entirely reasonable to require a permittee to clear a road or 

 trail which has been filled with rocks oy the passage of his stock, 

 but it is not reasonable to ask him to repair roads or trails that 

 were in poor condition before his stock entered the Forest. It is 

 also reasonable to require the fencing and troughing of a spring or 

 seep which has been damaged by the stock of a permittee. Other- 

 wise the Service should undertake the improvement with the coopera- 

 tion of the interested permittees if they can be persuaded to assist. 



BEDDING SHEEP AND GOATS. (Beg. G-24.) 



The prolonged use of one bed ground by a band of sheep is 

 Bed ounds destructive to the range because the amount of 

 forage tramped by a close herded band of sheep is 

 fully as great as the amount actually fed. Then, too, the sheep 

 leave the bed ground hungry and eat a large number of plants in the 

 vicinity of the bed ground that ordinarily would escape destruction. 

 Reestablishment of the forage thus destroyed is difficult if not 

 impossible. To reduce the damage to a minimum the bed ground 

 should be changed every six days at least. Lambing ewes can not 

 be moved every six days, and the interests of the range must in this 

 instance be sacrificed in a measure to the needs of the sheep. Where 

 no such exigency exists, and where the Government is not compen- 

 sated for the damage (by the lambing charge), sheep must not be 

 allowed to occupy one bed ground for more than six days. 



The bedding of sheep within 300 yards of a stream or spring that 

 is a source of water supply for a community or town must not be 

 allowed under any circumstances. 



DISPOSITION OF CABCASSES. (Beg. G-25.) 



To prevent the pollution of w r ater supply and the spread of disease 

 among human beings, as well as live stock, this rule will be strictly 

 enforced. The carcasses of animals dying from blackleg, anthrax, 

 glanders, and other bacterial diseases scatter germs on the range 

 when they decompose, and a healthy animal may contract the 

 disease. Therefore range losses will oe materially reduced if all 

 carcasses are burned. 



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