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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



March 



The regulation of sheep grazing has 

 resulted very beneficially to the re- 

 serve as well as to the stock owners, by 

 the elimination of many bands that 

 were owned by transient sheepmen 

 who neither owned land or water, 

 leaving the range for the permanent 

 stockmen, who now appreciate , the 

 protection afforded them in giving 

 each sheep owner entitled to range, an 

 exclusive range for his sheep. 



At first stockmen and settlers who 

 had for years utilized the reserve with- 



of one district or another, saving the 

 Government several thousands of dol- 

 lars that otherwise would have had to 

 have been paid for assistance, aside 

 from the incalculable damage to young 

 growing timber. 



Aside from the benefits derived 

 from grazing, the people in general 

 are commencing to more fully realize 

 the fact that in reserving this large 

 body of timber, it has been reserved 

 for their use, instead of permitting it 

 eventually to fall into the hands of 



Green Mountains from Mt. Baldwin 



out restrictions, resented the interfer- 

 ence of the government, but gradually 

 this feeling has been eradicated and 

 the better element realize even the im- 

 mediate benefits of the restrictions im- 

 posed. During the past year these 

 stockmen gave substantial evidence of 

 their appreciation of the reserve by as- 

 sisting at forest fires from April to the 

 middle of July, an almost continuous 

 service night and day for the stockmen 



speculators through fraudulent home- 

 steads, thus preventing the small local 

 saw mills from purchasing timber as it 

 is required by the settler for the de- 

 velopment of his claims, inside or out- 

 side the reserve, as has been done in 

 other States. 



Over 90 per cent of the reserve is 

 covered with a good stand of yellow 

 pine, running from 2,000 to as high as 

 6,000 feet per acre, much of which at 



