But we nust tighten up a "bit- upon the application of 

 the more difficult principles of the Manual to our locrJ. con- 

 ditions. Ho-./ some of you are Just aching to get on your feet 

 to tell me that protective limits, and. slicing scales, and 

 all that kind of thing, don't apply to your conditions. If 

 we are going to utilize the forage crop, we've got to ignore 

 thorn. But I am not air/ays so sure. If you cn l t apply the 

 regulations, say so - lil.:e ICelley did this Summer v/hen he 

 got our circular letter of June 14. ~.7e nade progress on Big- 

 clow^ and ELing's serious objections to Regulation G~19 last 

 year, whore owners or lessees of private lands made it i$;pos~ 

 si"ble for us to get any Benefit out of the surrounding ration^ 

 al Forest lands. V/e told Bigelow not to accept lands under 

 such conditions and then told the forest what we had told 

 Bigelow, and I thin!, the recent amendment to Regulation G-19 

 covering that very point is partly, if not wholly, the result 

 of their objections. T7e have been naming progress more or 

 less unconsciously for several years on the Sierra, Ulamath, 

 Stanislaus, and othor Porests by treating the different divi- 

 sions of a Forest as a separate unit, and applying different 

 and protective limits to different divisions accord- 



ing to the needs of the livestock interests* I didn T t realize 

 we were so far ahead of the game though iintil three da3 r s ago, 

 when the Forester sent out amendments to the instructions 

 covering these special points. 



