ADMINISTRATION 101 



To reduce interference with the natural processes 

 of reforestation, damage to tree growth and water- 

 sheds, depletion of grazing lands, and the waste of 

 valuable forest resources, it is important to develop 

 improved methods of managing different kinds of 

 live stock on different types of land. These new 

 methods of handling stock have been applied only 

 to sheep. The lambing of sheep in small in- 

 closures on the open range has resulted in the sav- 

 ing of a large percentage of the lambs. The new 

 method of bedding sheep where they happen to be 

 at nightfall has been found to have many advan- 

 tages over the old system of returning them to an 

 established bedding ground a number of nights in 

 succession. The results have been better sheep, 

 less damage to range, and more feed. 



It was not so many years ago that practically 

 nothing was known about the various plants which 

 make up the forage crop on the National Forests. 

 Forest officers could not identify the plants or say 

 whether they were of value for forage or not. 

 This made it difficult to secure the use of each range 

 by the class of stock to which it was best adapted, 

 to apply deferred and rotation grazing and to 

 eliminate losses from poisonous plants. This ob- 



