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NATIONAL FOREST MANUAL REGULATIONS. 



school and road districts, churches, and noncommercial cooperative 

 organizations of settlers, when the supervisor may, in his discretion, 

 extend the amount to any value not exceeding $100, or the value 

 named in his authorization from the district forester. If the per- 

 mittee fails to remove timber within the time allowed, the Forest 

 officer may grant the timber to another applicant. The time allowed 

 in permits may be extended by the officer issuing them in cases of 

 unusual emergency. 



Reg. S-23. Green saw timber will not be granted to any appli- 



Restrictions on Cant . wjl 4 O6S n ^ d ^ OWI1 ^gg"^* Unless he is 



free use of saw tim- physically incapacitated. Exceptions, however, may 

 be made in unusual cases in the judgment of the 

 supervisor. All free-use material may be sawed and allexcept green 

 timber may be cut for the permittee by an agent, but the work so 

 done must not be paid for by a share of the material. On Forests 

 where a limited supply or other conditions justify it, the free use of 

 all green saw timber or both green and dead saw timber may be 

 refused. 



Reg. S-24. Necessary cutting of timber in surveying for lawful 

 Free use without projects may be done without permit. Unnecessary 

 permit. cutting is prohibited. 



No free-use material, except the small quantities actually needed 

 by transients, will be taken without a written permit. 



Reg. S-25. Supervisors may, with the approval of the district 

 foresters, establish temporary free-use areas from 

 *** which bona fide settlers, miners, residents, and pros- 

 pectors for minerals may take, in quantities specified in Regulation 

 S-22, dead fuel timber, dead fencing material, either or both in the 

 discretion of the district forester, without the material being scaled 

 or measured by a Forest officer. While permits are required in all 

 cases, it is not necessary that they be obtained in advance when the 

 material is secured from a designated free-use area. In every instance 

 where a permit has not been obtained in advance, the person taking 

 material from a temporary free-use area shall promptly thereafter 

 notify the Forest officer in charge of the district in which such area is 

 located of the date of removal, and of the amount, value, and class 

 of material so taken. Upon receipt of such notification the Forest 

 officer will issue the necessary permit. 



sale of material & e g S -26. Timber or other forest products received 

 prohibited. under a free-use permit shall not be sold. 



Reg. S-27. Settlers, farmers, prospectors, fishermen, or similar 

 persons residing within or adjacent to National Forests 

 in Alaska may take, without permit and free of 

 charge, green or dry timber from the Forests, and drift- 

 wood, afloat or on the beaches, for their own personal use, but not 

 for sale; provided, that the amount of material so taken shall not in 

 any one year exceed 20,000 feet board measure, or 25 cords of wood; 

 and provided further, that the persons enjoying this privilege will, 

 on demand, forward to the supervisor a statement of the quantity of 

 material so taken and a description of the location from which it was 

 removed. 



Special conditions 

 i Alaska. 



