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will determine the fees to be charged for each short season in accord- 

 ance with the established schedule and the provisions of regulation 

 G-9. When notified of the establishment of grazing allowances and 

 yearlong rates for any National Forest, the district forester will estab- 

 lish and fix the rates for all grazing periods less than yearlong and will 

 transmit instructions to the supervisor, who will issue grazing per- 

 mits in accordance therewith. Fifteen days may be added to the 

 grazing period, in the discretion of the supervisor, without charge. 



DISTRICTS AND DIVISIONS. 



Reg. G-2. The grazing of sheep and goats upon any portion of a 

 Forest must not be allowed until authorized by the Forester. This 

 authorization secured, the kind of stock to be grazed in each district 

 open to grazing on the Forests will be determined by the district 

 forester. Under his general instructions, National Forests in which 

 grazing is allowed will be divided into districts by the supervisor, 

 who will provide for the distribution of stock among the olistricts, 

 and make such range divisions among applicants for grazing per- 

 mits as appear most equitable and for the best interests of the 

 National Forest and its users. When required for the protection of 

 camping places, lakes and streams, roads and trails, etc., or of areas 

 which are to be reforested, the supervisor may exclude stock from 

 specified areas for such period of time as is necessary. Stock will be 

 excluded from areas where they will destroy young growth or will 

 prevent reproduction. 



ADVISORY BOARDS. 



Reg. G-3. Whenever any live-stock association wnose member- 

 ship includes a majority of the owners of any class of live stock using a 

 National Forest or portion thereof shall select a committee, an agree- 

 ment on the part of which shall be binding upon the association, such 

 committee, upon application to the district forester, may be recog- 

 nized as an advisory board for the association, and shall then be 

 entitled to receive notice of proposed action and have an opportunity 

 to be heard by the local forest officer in reference to increase or de- 

 crease in the number of stock to be allowed for any year, the division 

 of the range between the different classes of stock or their owners, or 

 the adoption of special rules to meet local conditions. 



Upon request from and with the approval of an officially recognized 

 advisory board representing a majority of the permittees to be affect- 

 ed, the district forester may establish special rules to regulate the use 

 and occupancy of the range and to prevent damage to the forest 

 lands, such rules to be binding upon and observed by all permittees 

 grazing stock within the range involved. Such conditions as may be 

 necessary may be imposed upon the handling of permitted stock, the 

 employment of herders to confine the stock to the allotted ranges, the 

 distribution of salt, the enforcement of State live-stock laws and the 

 construction of permanent improvements to protect the Forest or 

 facilitate the handling of permitted stock. 



Wlien an association represents only a minority of the owners of 

 any kind of live stock, but its members own 75 per cent of that kind 

 of live stock using the range, upon petition of a sufficient number of 

 the other owners to constitute a majority its advisory board may be 

 recognized by the district forester. 



