UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, y v c\ 



FOREST SERVICE. 



AMENDMENT NO. 5 TO THE NATIONAL FOEEST MANUAL, 1911 

 GRAZING. (REGULATIONS OF THE SECRETARY OF AGRICUL- 

 TURE AND INSTRUCTIONS TO FOREST OFFICERS RELATING 

 TO AND GOVERNING THE GRAZING OF LIVE STOCK UPON 

 NATIONAL FOREST LANDS.) 



Effective on and after February 15, 1912. 



UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT or AGRICULTURE, 

 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY. 



Regulation G-13, page 12, of the National Forest Manual, 1911, 

 Grazing, issued by the Secretary of Agriculture on March 18, 1911, 

 to take effect May 1, 1911, is hereby modified and amended to read 

 and to provide as follows : 



Grazing permits will be renewed only when the grazing of the 

 class of stock involved is authorized by the Secretary of Agriculture. 

 Permits for numbers of stock in excess of the established protective 

 limits will be subject to reduction in their renewal, and no division 

 or sale of stock and ranches will exempt such permits from reduction. 

 A permit may be divided in its renewal because of division of stock 

 and ranches between two or more owners or purchasers, but not more 

 than one permit will be issued for less than the protective limit 

 number of stock because of such division. 



A renewal of permit may be allowed the purchaser of stock grazed 

 under permit and the ranches used in connection therewith, provided 

 that the permittee from whom the stock is purchased has used the 

 range during three or more successive years and the purchaser has 

 secured a waiver from the permittee of all preference in renewal of 

 the permit. The renewal of permit, which has been secured as above, 

 to a second purchaser may be allowed after the expiration of one 

 year from the date of the permit issued the first purchaser. The mere 

 purchase of stock grazed under permit will not entitle the purchaser 

 to share in the grazing privilege, but if he is the owner of improved 

 ranch property which is commensurate and used in connection with 

 the stock, a renewal of permit may be allowed for not to exceed 80 per 

 cent of the number of stock purchased, and provided that a full 

 renewal will be allowed if the purchaser is a resident ranch owner 

 who does not own a total of more than the protective limit number of 

 stock. When all stock grazed under permit and all ranch property 

 used in connection therewith by a permittee is purchased a full 

 renewal of permit may be allowed, subject to the maximum limit 

 restriction and to necessary reductions applicable to other permits of 

 the same class. 



Done at Washington this 2d day of February, 1912. 



Witness my hand and the seal of the Department of Agriculture. 



[SEAL.] JAMES WILSON, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



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