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and Montana; 55,000 black of brown bear, chiefly in California, Wash- 

 ington, Oregon, Alaska and Montana; 14,000 antelope; 115,000 elk; 

 8000 moose; 20,000 mountain goats; 12,000 mountain sheep; and 

 nearly a million deer. 



Water Power. Under proper regulations, water-power projects are 

 developed in our National Forests, generally in cooperation with the 

 Federal Power Commission. There are 379 permittees operating under 

 licenses in National Forests. 



Roads and Trails. It is a consistent policy of the Forest Service to 

 develop an adequate road and trail system. In order to make the 



FIG. 106. A rodent control crew poisoning the pocket gopher, which destroys 

 much valuable forage in the National Forests and on the Public Domain in the 

 West. Rodent control is a very important phase of grazing management in 

 many parts of the Rocky Mountains, the Southwest and the Pacific Coast States. 



forests more quickly and readily available to the public, to insure 

 better fire protection, and to transport more economically the mineral, 

 grazing, and forest products, the men of the Civilian Conservation 

 Corps have been very effective in construction, improvement, and 

 maintenance work on many thousands of miles of roads and trails on 

 most of the 'National Forests of the West, East, South, and Lake 

 States. 



2. Research. Research is a very important and integral part of 

 the work of the Forest Service. The chief activities in research are 

 in the fields of forest economics, such as forest taxation and the forest 



