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THE FORESTER. 



November, 



Day," " The Influence of Forests on Agri- 

 culture and Manufactures." 



The Tennessee Forest Association has 

 been quite active in its efforts to arouse 

 the people of that state to a full apprecia- 



tion of the need of caring for its remain- 

 ing forests and this meeting should do the 

 cause a lot of good. A full account of 

 this meeting will be printed in the De- 

 cember Forester. 



GRAZING IN THE FOREST RESERVES. 



By Gifford Pinchot, 

 Forester U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



TOGETHER with irrigation the graz- rules based upon theoretical considerations, 

 ing question is to-day decidedly the Local rules must be framed to meet local 

 most important problem of the Na- conditions, and they must be modified 

 tional Forest Reserves. At present only from time to time as local needs may re- 

 in rare instances does the value of timber quire, 

 annually taken from 

 the forest reserves ap- 

 proach the value of 

 the forage yearly con- 

 sumed by grazing ani- 

 mals. Perhaps only 

 in a single instance 

 that of the Black Hills 

 is timber cutting dis- 

 tinctly the more im- 

 portant industry. 



Any adequate con- 

 sideration of the graz- 

 ing question must be 

 based upon thefollow- 

 ing propositions : 



1. All the resources 

 of the forest reserves, 

 large and small, should 

 be wisely used for the 

 good of the people. 

 The wealth of the re- 

 serves is not limited 

 to the timber, min- 

 erals, and water which 

 they supply. The 

 grasses and the for- 

 age plants are like- 

 wise a resource of 

 prime importance, and 

 they should be util- 

 ized. 



2. Grazing is pri- 

 marily a local question 

 and should always be 

 dealt with on local 

 grounds. Wise administration of grazing 

 in the reserves is impossible under general 



HEAVY GRASS IN WHITE MOUNTAIN APACHE INDIAN RESERVATION, 

 ARIZONA. NO GRAZING WAS PERMITTED HERE. 



3. Overgrazing destroys both the forest 

 and the range. The avoidance of it is 



