(From the Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture, 



San Trancisco Of i ice )' 



^ST LANDS APE 

 JSY USES 



Almost every conceivable use to which land may be put 

 represented in the permits reported by the Forest Service for 

 special projects on the national forests. Some of the uses shown 

 ange , alphabetically, from apiary through brickyard, cannery, ceme- 

 ;ery, church, cranberry marsh, fox ranch, marine railway, rifle range, 

 turpentine still, to wharf, and whaling station. 



There are 15,000 permits in force for such special uses, 

 r/hich are distributed geographically from Alaska to the Mexican line 



and east to Florida. This figure does not include any of the 27,000 



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permits in force for grazing cattle and sheep on the forests, nor the 

 6,000 transactions for the sale of timber, and the more than 38,000 

 permits issued last year for the free use of timber by settlers, miners 



and others in developing their homesteads and claims; nor the nearly 

 300 permits for water-power development* 



California led all the national forest states in the 

 number of these special use permits, followed by Arizona, Colorado, 



lontana, and New Mexico in the order named. The largest single class 

 of permits was for special pastured or corrals, to be used for lambing 

 grounds, shearing pens, and the like, Fe:ct came rights of way for con- 

 duits, ditches, and flumes; practically all of these being free. Va- 

 rious agricultural permits come third, telephone lines fourth with 



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