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will furnish sufficient pasture without 

 danger to reforestation or the forage 

 crop, and to hold the stockmen respon- 

 sible for the proper use of the range. In 

 some parts of the reserve total exclusion 

 of live stock may be necessary, but in 

 most places all that is needed is proper 

 regulation and cooperation on the part 

 of the stockmen and settlers in prevent- 

 ing forest fires. Fire has been the 

 greatest enemy to reproduction in this 

 reserve, as in man}- others. 



The first sheep were driven into Ari- 

 zona about 1875, coming across the 

 desert from California. These flocks 

 were followed by others in later years, 

 and also b}' bands from New Mexico. 

 Ever since those early days the moun- 

 tain ranges have been used by the sheep- 

 men for lambing grounds and summer 

 range. The splendid reproduction of 

 young trees in many parts of the forest 

 reserve which have been constantly 

 grazed over for the past twenty-five 

 years shows that here, at least, the har- 

 vesting of the crop of grass has been 

 done without damage to the forest, and 



has evidently protected the young trees 

 b}' causing forest fires to be less de- 

 structive. 



Sheep need shade and a cool tempera- 

 ture during the summer. Not only do 

 they keep in better flesh, but the fleece 

 of wool makes a better growth and is 

 improved in quality. 



In order to raise a good, thrifty lamb, 

 it is necessary that you have green feed 

 for the ewes, so that they will furnish 

 plenty of milk. With dry feed and a 

 consequent scarcity of milk, you are 

 sure to raise a "runty" lot of lambs. 

 It is necessary that a lamb should make 

 a good healthy growth during the first 

 month of its life, if you expect to raise 

 a profitable sheep. As the earliest green 

 grass and herbage is found along the foot 

 of the mountains, and later, after the 

 snow has disappeared, in the mountain 

 parks, this is the natural breeding 

 ground to which they are driven from 

 the winter range. Most of these sum- 

 mer ranges and lambing grounds being 

 located within the limits of the forest 

 reserve, this industry would be seriously 



A SECTION WHICH HAS BEEN SERIOUSLY INJURED BY SHEEP AND CATTLE. 



