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There are approximately 40 millions of acres of grazing land on 

 the Indian reservations that are of major importance from a grazing 

 standpoint. 



TABLE 1. Areas of Indian lands, by regions 



1 General data concerning Indian reservations. Office of Indian Affairs, October 1929, p. 21. 



2 From an extensive survey made by the Forest Service, 1931-32. 



3 From an unpublished report of an economic survey of the range resources and grazing activities on 

 Indian reservations, by Lee Muck, July 1931. 



* Less than 500. 



6 This figure does not include 6,772,000 acres of the noncommercial forest land, mostly of pinon-juniper 

 type, in Arizona and New Mexico. 



In national terms, the 71 million acres of Indian reservations 

 amount to about 3.7 percent of the total land area of the United 

 States; the 9 million acres of Indian forest lands constitute only 

 1.4 percent of all potential forest land; and the 40 million acres 

 of grazing land on Indian reservations are only 5 percent of all 

 range lands. However, because the majority of the Indian reserva- 

 tions are located in the central and western regions of the country, 

 the importance of Indian forest and range lands is much greater 

 when considered from a regional standpoint. The distribution of 

 forest lands is shown in table 2. Similar detail for grazing lands is not 

 available, but since these are mainly found on the larger reservations, 

 the bulk of them is in Western States where the stock-raising industry 

 is most actively engaged. 



