UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 

 FOREST SERVICE. 



THE NATIONAL FOREST MANUAL. 



AMENDMENT NO. 164 INSTRUCTIONS. 



APRIL 1, 1913. 



Free Use. The Instructions are hereby amended as follows: 

 On page 68 by the addition of the following after the second para- 

 graph: 



When timber is to be used by cooperative organizations for the 

 persona.1 benefit of their members, the line should be 

 ga^za P tions ive r ~ drawn us with individuals, and timber should not be 

 given to organizations which ma}' reasonably be 

 required to purchase. Cooperative associations of settlers should be 

 granted free use of timber needed in the construction of (1) roads, 

 schools, or other structures of public benefit; and (2) irrigation works 

 or structures of any kind required for the development of unperfected 

 claims or unimproved ranches not yet sufficiently developed to fur- 

 nish an ample livelihood for their owners. Such associations should 

 be required to purchase timber needed in the construction of (1) irri- 

 gation works or other structures, any portion of which will be used 

 commercially, as in the sale of water: and (2) irrigation works or 

 other structures designed to further improve or enhance the value of 

 improved ranches which now furnish an ample livelihood for their 

 owners. 



On page 68, by the substitution of the following for the last para- 

 graph : 



The small amount of material actually needed by transients may 



. be taken and necessarv cutting of timber in survey- 



Transient use. - . j. , _f , , - , ^ .,, 9. 



ing for lawful projects may be done without a permit. 



Material may be taken in advance of securing a permit in cases of 



zmer enc use emergency or of great and immediate need, but the 



amount taken, with its location and the date of 



removal, should be reported at once to the nearest forest officer, who 



will issue a permit authorizing the cutting. 



On page 69, by the insertion of the following after the third para- 

 graph: 



Other methods for reducing costs are: Concentrating cutting on 

 specific areas convenient to users, marking and tagging green trees 

 upon specific areas in advance of application, using the mails in issu- 

 ing permits, encouraging applications from those entitled to the 

 privilege during the season in which other work is slack, issuing per- 

 mits fur the entire or a considerable part of the fiscal year, determin- 

 ing at the beginning of the fiscal year what residents of the district 



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