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units that they must be administered together. Their management with 

 the timber is essential from a fire protective standpoint alone for, if the 

 grasses of the mountain parks were allowed to mature from year to year 

 without being removed, tliev would constitute verv serious fire menace to 

 the timbered areas. Special provisions are made to take care of the small 

 bunches of stock of new settlers by cutting down the large herds. Permits 

 are necessary to secure the use of national forest ranges. 



The serious fires which have been i^rev^alent in the past have destroyed 

 many thousand feet of valuable timber and many acres of valuable range. 



Cattle Grazing in Open Mountain Park in National Forest. 



Realizing, in the light of past experience, the danger of leaving the forests 

 unprotected, all agencies, including" private, state and national. 

 As to Co- are bending every effort to reduce the danger from this menace 

 operative to the minimum. Fire recognizes no boundary lines between 

 Fire the owners of different tracts and co-operation eliminates dupli- 



Protection cation of effort and makes possible a definite organized sys- 

 tem of scientific fire prevention. The plan of protection pro- 

 vides a patrol force of specially equipped men along the railroads and on 

 lookout points, proper distribution of tool caches at strategic locations, 

 transportation facilities, such as pack horses, wagons, motorboats, motor- 

 cycles; it also includes the building of trails and telephone lines. Within 



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