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Grazing Uses and Reports Connected with Them 



Supervisors should be careful to transmit the report and duplicate Form 861 with 

 the permit in each special use case, in order to avoid unnecessary subsequent cor- 

 respondence by the District office; and in all cases permits should bear the same 

 designation as the Form 861. In no instance should the date in the case designa- 

 tion precede that of the report or the application. 



Use of Private Lands of Indeterminate Status 



In some cases permits for the use of private lands are being issued by supervisors 

 to permittees whose names do not appear on the records of previous permits, and 

 with nothing to show whether the status has been determined, although this might 

 have been done in connection with some previous permit to another. All such per- 

 mits should be accompanied by a memorandum or letter showing whether the status 

 has been previously determined and in what manner. 



Grazing- on Unperfected Mining- Claims 



. A mining claimant holding an unperfected valid claim has no right to graze stock 

 upon it which is not used in the development of the mine, or to sell the forage to 

 anyone else; but it is the policy of the Forest Service to give the mining claimant 

 every protection needed successfully to carry on his work. 



Persons holding permits for range within which unperfected valid mining claims 

 are located should be warned not to allow their stock to graze upon such claims when 

 this would interfere with the development of the mine or the consumption of forage 

 needed by stock used in its development. 



Refunds must be Approved by District Forester 



Particular attention is called to the instructions under Regulation 57, which require 

 the supervisor to forward all requests for grazing reiunds to the District Forester with 

 recommendations for approval or rejection. ^The District Forester will decide whether 

 or not the refund will be made. All vouchers for grazing refunds will be prepared 

 by the District Forester and sent to the supervisor for the signature of the applicant. 



Permits for Sheep and Goats under Regulation 54 



In National Forests, where small portions of the range along the boundary line are 

 well adapted to sheep or goat grazing, but are not of sufficient area to support a band 

 of sheep or goats during the regular graxing periods and can only be used to advan- 

 tage in connection with the adjoining outside range, or where portions of the outside 

 range can only be used to advantage in connection with watering places located with- 

 in the National Forests, it will be within the authority of the District Forester to 

 allow the issuance of permits under the provisions of Regulation 54 requiring the 

 graxing fees to be paid only on such number of animals as would be proportionate 

 with the amount of National Forest range. But no such application will be approved 

 by the supervisor until authority has tirst been received from the District Forester. 



Designation of Grazing District Subdivisions 



Whenever it is possible, subdivisions of grazing districts should be designated by 

 local names instead of by numbers or letters. For example, the description in the 

 permit should be ''Green River Cattle Range," District 2, in preference to "subdi- 

 vision 3," District 2. When individual range allotments are made they should be 

 described briefly in the permit either by natural boundaries or section lines. It is 

 believed this method will be better understood by the stockmen and will be less 

 liable to cause confusion in the records. 



