against them. It was always the other fellow who went over 

 the lino. This caused considerable dissatisfaction among 

 the users of the range there and this serins and fall I in- 

 structed the Hanger to watch the sheep coming and going and 

 I sant another Rangar down to ]~eep up the other worlr in the 

 District, 



Another reason for the hi&h cost of grazing on the 

 Inyo is that all patrol worlc was charged to grazing; - no 

 patrol was charged to fire unless the Ranger was going to a 

 firo. Gn other Forests probably considerable of the patrol- 

 ling was charged to fire as any Ranger while looking over 

 the rangos is always on the looliout for fire. 



In ny nearly 14 years Experience in the Service, 

 and on several different forests, I havo not seon any other 

 IPorest where the conditions canio anywhere near averaging up 

 to those of handling grazing on the Sierra part of the Inyo. 

 The lower part of a sheep range will he at an olsvation of 

 500C feet and the upper part from 10,000 to 13,000 feet. 

 There is no way of getting from one range to another along 

 or near the summit ; the Ranger must maiie the climb, to the 

 summit , then baclr down and up again on each range - and 

 sometimes he must malre noro then one such climb to cover 

 one sheop range, -.s we have ce^ttle ranges mined up with 

 the sheep ranges , with no natural "boundaries "between them, 

 it is necessary for the Range-r to lieep close ta"b on his 



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