1902. 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION. 



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reserves, selecting and appointing men, 

 organizing an efficient patrol service, 

 and examining the new boundaries of 

 these reserves, with a view of making 

 such corrections as may be necessary. 

 Mr. Anderson reports that an unusually 

 large amount of outside live stock, espe- 

 cially sheep, has been driven into the 

 new additions to these reserves, causing 

 much damage to the range. 



Major F. A. Fenn, Superintendent of 

 the Forest Reserves of Idaho and Mon- 

 tana, has just finished an extensive tour 

 of the lycwis and Clarke and the Flat- 

 head Reserves, in Montana. 



There is great rejoicing among the 

 forest officers of the Sierra and Stanis- 

 laus Reserves of California over the at- 

 titude of the courts toward sheep tres- 

 pass. The late decisions practicalh^ 

 refute those of Judge Wellborn, and 

 grant a temporary injunction to restrain 

 sheepmen in their efforts to graze sheep 

 in the reserves in violation of the rules 

 and regulations, and practically in defi- 

 ance of the orders of the Department of 

 the Interior. 



Mr. E. T. Allen, Inspector of Forest 

 Reserves, has spent nearly all of the 

 summer in the reserves about Pikes Peak 

 and the Battlement Mesa, Colorado. 

 He reports a wretched condition of af- 

 fairs. Serious maladministration has 

 led to extensive timber trespass, much of 

 which, it is believed, has been hidden by 

 intentional setting of forest fires. 



Inspector H. D. Langille has com- 

 pleted his work in the Uintah Forest 

 Reserve, in Utah, and is now working in 

 the White River Reserve, in Colorado. 

 He reports serious overgrazing of the 

 Uintah Reserve. Much of Mr. Lan- 

 gille's time has been taken up by cases 

 of timber trespass. The whole matter 

 of timber cutting, both from sales and 

 free use, has been seriously misman- 

 aged for some time, which has caused 

 the settlers and miners in and about the 

 reserve much inconvenience. 



A peculiarly unsatisfactory condition 

 exists at present in the Uintah Forest 

 Reserve on account of the lack of de- 

 marcation of its southern boundary line, 

 this being the boundary line between 

 the Uintah Forest Reserve and the 

 Uintah Indian Reservation. A number 



of sheepmen who have leased Indian 

 lands are having other sheepmen, pre- 

 sumably grazing under permit in the 

 forest reser\?es, arrested for trespass on 

 their leased grounds. In turn, Super- 

 visor Marshall is trying to prevent out- 

 side sheepmen from grazing on what he 

 believes to be lands within the forest 

 reserve. 



Seth Bullock, the Supervisor of the 

 Black Hills Forest Reserve, has been 

 authorized to eniplo}- extra assistance, 

 in view of the great danger from fire in 

 the extensive sections of beetle-killed 

 timber. 



Supervisor Moser, of the lycwis and 

 Clarke Forest Reserve, in Montana, re- 

 ports an unusually successful season. 

 Among other things accomplished by 

 this officer is the first successful prose- 

 cution of a timber trespasser on forest 

 reserve lands in Montana. 



A regular ' ' gun permit ' ' is now issued 

 b}' the supervisors of the reserves in 

 northern California. No one is allowed 

 to carry firearms in these reserves with- 

 out a permit. The permit is issued on 

 condition that the bearer will obey all 

 rules and regulations, and especially 

 that he will carry the permit whenever 

 in the reserve with arms ; submit cheer- 

 fully to inspection of permit and gun ; 

 that he wdll not mutilate live timber or 

 any other property ; observe the game 

 laws, and extinguish fires before leaving 

 camp. This step has become necessar}' 

 on account of the manj^ fires started every 

 year by gun-carrying parties of tourists. 



Mr. Fred. Breen, Supervisor of the 

 Black Mesa and San Francisco Moun- 

 tains Reserves, in Arizona, reports nu- 

 merous fires in these reserves. On ac- 

 count of the unusual drouth and summer 

 logging the work of the rangers has 

 been very arduous this season. 



Mr. R. C. McClure, the Supervisor of 

 the Gila Forest Reserve, reports that 

 the reserve is decidedly overgrazed. 

 He adds, however, that it is difficult to 

 estimate how much stock would have 

 perished had it not been for the recovirse 

 to reserve pastures. 



Mr. W. T. May, Superintendent of 

 Forest Reserves of Colorado and Utah, 

 has left the service. Armor Thompson, 

 Supervisor of the Teton Forest Re- 



