(Fror: the Forest Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture-) 



STOCKTON PART- 1C I PAT]-: IN IIAKA3K1ISN? 

 OF NATIONAL FOJ^STS 



During the past fiscal year, according to a report 

 of the U. S. forest service, 31 local organizations of stock- 

 growers using national forest ranges have applied for and se- 

 cured the official recognition of their advisory board? by the 

 forest service. This brinks' the number of associations offi- 

 cially re^o^nized by the forest service to a total of 115. 



Through the medium: of theae advisory boards several 

 thousand stockmen v;ho graze stock upon the national forests"; 

 nov. tv. l;e an active part in disc-wrsins all problems of forest 

 administration which r-.ffect their interests. The result, 

 states the forest service report, has been the elimination of 

 misunderstanding re^ardin^ the requirenentb of the stock inter-' 

 ests arid an improvement in methods of rp.nge control v/hich has 

 \von tlie endorsciient and rpproval of the lar^e majority of f he 

 persons v/ho depend upon the national forests for the pasturage 

 of their stock. 



T\A*O of the stockmen's associations are national in 

 their scope and one is a state organization. The rei:iaininc 



112 are local organizations. 



The stoclonen have, it is said, 



been successful in securing advitory boards composed of b 

 minded, unselfish men of v/i.rie ]>ractical bxperionce v;ho h:i 



