ADVANTAGE OF COOPERATION BE- 

 TWEEN THE GOVERNMENT AND 

 LIVE STOCK ASSOCIATIONS IN THE 

 REGULATION AND CONTROL OF 

 GRAZING ON FOREST RESERVES 



BY 

 FRED P. JOHNSON 



Secretary National Live Stock Association 



A SSUMING that it is conceded that the forest re- 

 ^^ serves may be used in an economical manner for 

 the grazing of live stock, the absolute necessity of an 

 efficient control and regulation of this privilege, for 

 the protection of the reserves, must be admitted. 



To those not familiar with the vast areas the forest 

 reserves cover, the task of providing an efficient patrol 

 to guard them and prevent their injury, may seem a 

 mere matter of detail. Those who are familiar with 

 these conditions, on the contrary, are inclined to the 

 belief that the whole United States Army would hardly 

 furnish enough men to give the adequate protection 

 needed. While, under the present system of patrol, a 

 small army of men are in service, the protection af- 

 forded is only nominal. How then can the stockmen 

 be allowed to graze in these reserves with the assurance 

 that they will be rightly used, and not only the grazing, 

 but the forests as well, be protected from misuse and 

 vandalism, for there is vandalism in grazing as well as 

 in the destruction of forests? 



From my knowledge of the stockmen in the West, 

 I can assert that there is no class of men more vitally 



