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EEGr. 24. All Forest officers whom the supervisor may 

 designate are authorized to grant free-use permits UP to 

 $20jii value under these regulations, and to make such 

 restrictions as to quality, kind, amount, location, and re- 

 moval as they deem necessary to protect the National 

 Forests. It is their duty to furnish cheerful assistance 

 to applicants, to act promptly upon all applications, and, 

 in general, to follow as liberal a policy in the matter of 

 free use as the interests of the National Forests and the 

 proper performance of their other work will allow. 



No free-use material, excepjb the small quantities actu- 

 ally needed by transients, may be taken without a permit. 

 Free use can never be granted 



The free-use business of the National Forests will be 

 conducted mainly by the rangers, subject only to the 

 general restrictions, instructions, and supervision out- 

 lined in this book, and the general plan and policy 

 outlined by the supervisors* 



The Forest oilicer issuing the permit should designate the 

 timber to be cut in the simplest and most economical way 

 practicable. Living timber should be marked. In the case of 

 dead timber, an area may be blazed or defined by natural 

 boundaries, and the class of trees to be taken specified. 



When numerous applications for free use are expected, Forest 

 officers should notify the public, in any convenient manner, that 

 they will be at designated places on certain days prepared to 

 transact free-use and other Forest business. 



On many Forests it will be possible to reduce the work of 

 handling free-use business by designating free-use areas, prefer- 

 ably in dead timber. These should be mapped and reported 

 upon to the supervisor, who, if he approves the selection of the 

 area, will authorize the ranger to mark or specify the timber 

 which should be removed and to designate the boundaries. 



