(From the Forect Service?, ;J. . re^rtnent of 



LIVESTOCK INCREASE ON 

 NATIONAL FOREST P.ANGKS 



A marked increace in the quantity of livestock grazed 

 on national forest ranges during the past fiscal year is re- 

 ported by the forest service. Nine and a half million domes- 

 tic aniraalG have bean occupied during the sursner in converting 

 one of the by-products of the forests into neat, hides, and 

 BTDO 1. In addition, there v.*ere in round numbers three hundred 

 thousand calves < and colts and five million Inmbs and kids 

 exempt from pernit and therefore not enumerated. 



According to the figures gathered, the amount of stock 

 grazed under permit during th^ year is over four per cent 

 greater thp.n for the previous year, while the number of per- 

 mittees using the forests for pasturage purposes was increased 

 from 26,501 to 27,466. The total receipts by the government 

 from grazing fees for the tv;elve months ending June 30, 1915, 



were ..;i, 007 ,739, and the portion of this applied to schools 



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and roads in the states in which the national forests are 

 situated is about ;; .""> 5 , 7 P . 



Grazing is second only to lumbering as a principal 

 use of the national forests. Practically all of the national 

 forests uce-.l ey.tensi.veiy for grazing pin-poses are within the 

 eleven states extending east from the Pacific Coast, knov/n as 

 the '-far western group." These states contain, according to 



55 P 



