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Litigated Claims Cases 



When litigated claims cases are referred to the Forester, the District Forester 

 should request the Commissioner of the General Land Office to suspend the case for 

 thirty days, and the Forester should be sent a statement setting forth reasons, if any 

 exist, why the Commissioner should be asked to reverse the decision of the Register 

 and Receiver. The papers in the case should remain in the "OLX" files of the dis- 

 trict law officer, since the record in these cases can be obtained from the General 

 Land Office. 



Cooperation with State Officials 

 The Secretary of Agriculture has approved the following regulation: 



"All Forest officers will cooperate with State and Territorial officials, so far as 

 they can without undue interference with their regular Forest work, to enforce 

 local laws for the prevention and extinguishment of forest fires. When author- 

 ized to do so by the proper State officers, they will, without additional pay, act 

 as fire wardens with full power to enforce the local laws." 



Changes in Common Names of Trees 



The following changes have been made in the common names of trees given in the 

 Check List, and hereafter the newly adopted names are requested to be used by 

 members of the Service in designating these species: 



Pinus monticola, substitute western white pine for silver pine; Pinus quadrifolia, 

 four-leaf pine for Parry pifion; Pinus monophylla, single-leaf pine for single-leaf 

 pinon; Pinus ponderosa, western yellow pine for bull pine; Pinus ponder osa scopulo- 

 rum, Rocky Mountain yellow pine for rock pine; Pinus contorta, lodgepole pine 

 (includes coast form previously called "shore pine"); Tsuga merlensiana, mountain 

 hemlock for black hemlock; Pseudotsuga taxifolia, Douglas fir for yellow fir, red fir, 

 and Douglas spruce; Abies grandis, grand fir for lowland fir; Thuja plicala, western 

 red cedar for giant arbor-vitee; Chanuvcyparis no-itkatsrws, yellow cypress for yellow 

 cedar; Chamsecyparis htwuonwna, Lawson cypress for Port Orford cedar; Juniperus 

 virginiana, red cedar for red juniper; Juniperus scopulorum. Rocky Mountain red cedar 

 for Rocky Mountain juniper; Taxus brerifolia, western yew for Pacific yew; Tumion 

 californicum, California nutmeg for California Torreya: Neowashingtonia filifera, 

 Washington palm for fan-leaf valmiQfetula fonlinalffi mountain birch for west- 

 A ern birch; BetuJkL-QC&d&tfQfa (previously Considered the western form of Betula 



rjlpapyrifera), %estern birch;) Alnm teuuijolia, mountain alder for paper-leaf alder; 



yf Castanopsis cnr~yxophylla, western chinquapin for goldenleaf chinquapin; Quercus 

 lobata, valley oak for California white oak; Quercus breweri, Brewer oak for shin oak; 

 Quercus garryana, Oregon oak for Pacific post oak; Quercus douglasii, blue oak if or 

 California rock oak; Quercus wislizenl, Wislizenus's oak for highland oak; Liriodendron 

 tulipifera, tulip poplar for yellow poplar and tulip tree; Liquidambar styraciflua, red 

 gum for sweet gum; Cercocarpus ledifolius; curl-leaf mahogany for mountain mahog- 



^,^any; Cercoeorgua^^ for valley mahogany; Prunus sub- 



y^ cordata, (Pacific "pIujJBfr for fcestern plun>) Prosopis odorata, screwpod mesquite for 



screwbpan: ParkiY)npia micrqprwlla, jjltie4eaf horsebean for small-leaf horsebean; 

 Olneya tesota^onora, ironwoo^Tor^ejdcan ironwoo^ Rims integrifolia, mahogany 

 estern Eim^nAcer macrotillti m T)iroad leaf male for Oreon male 



sumach for western Eim^n^Acer macroptiyllti m ,T)iroad leaf maple for Oregon maple; 

 Rhamnus purshiana, cascara for cascara sagrada; Cornus nnttallii, western dogwood 

 for Pacific dogwood; Sambucus glauca, blue elderberry for pale elder. 



OPERATION. 



Special-Use Permits for Wagon Roads 



There is an apparent conflict between Regulations 12 and 15 of The Use Book, 

 Regulation 12 stating that no permit is necessary for the construction of wagon roads 

 by States or counties over National Forest lands, while Regulation 15 implies that a 

 permit is necessary, unless the road was constructed prior to the creation of the 

 Forest. Although prior to July 1, 1908, States and counties were required to obtain 

 permits authorizing them to construct roads and trails through National Forests, it 

 was intended by Regulation 12 that this piactice should be discontinued; therefore 

 permits are not now necessary for such purposes. When the new Use Book shall be 

 issued, Regulation 15 will be changed to harmonize with Regulation 12. 



