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the season fee, but should be figured separately upon the basis of the 

 number of ewes or does to be lambed or kidded. The control of 

 suitable lambing grounds is one of the most important factors in 

 successful sheep raising. The intensive method under which sheep 

 must be handled during the lambing season causes more damage to 

 the range than ordinary grazing, and the lambing charge is made 

 for the use of the range for a special purpose which causes more than 

 ordinary damage to the range. It is not on account of the additional 

 feed required by the lambs. 



The phrase "for the purpose of lambing or kidding" should be con- 

 strued to mean the use of a range during the period from the time the 

 first lambs or kids are born until the herds are made up for summer 

 grazing, or ordinarily the period during which the herd is on the 

 lambing grounds. The mere fact that lambing corrals are located 

 upon patented land within the Forest or upon public lands imme- 

 diately adjacent will not relieve a permittee from the payment of 

 the lambing charge. Two cents per head will be charged in all cases 

 where drop bands are grazed upon the Forest or where ewe bands 

 enter the Forest immediately after the lambs are dropped and before 

 the herds are made up for the summer. If a lambing ground is 

 located partly within a Forest and partly outside, or on private 

 lands, so that the stock will be grazed on and off the Forest during 

 the lambing period, there should be a division of the extra charge 

 for lambing on the same basis as the on-and-off grazing fee. 



While it is true that in some cases ewes or does entering the Forest 

 with lambs or kids after the herds are first made up must be confined 

 to a limited area until the young are able to travel and consequently 

 damage the range to an unusual extent, the element of special use and 

 damage is not present and they will be charged for at the regular rate 

 established for sheep and goats for the period. 



PAYMENTS. (Beg. G-10.) 

 Grazing Fees Payable in Advance. 



The approval of an application to graze stock on forest land does 

 not authorize the grazing of the stock. Persons who place stock upon 

 a National Forest before they have paid the grazing fees due and 

 secured a permit are guilty of grazing trespass, thereby becoming 

 subject to a demand for damages, or in aggravated cases, to civil or 

 criminal action. This fact should be brought to the attention of 

 stock owners who are delinquent in paying their fees, and in cases 

 where such delinquency is due to extreme negligence or willfulness 

 trespass proceedings may properly be initiated. If trespass action 

 is instituted the approval of the application will be modified so as to 

 exclude that part of the grazing period during which the stock were 

 in trespass and permit will be issued only for the part of the season 

 during which the occupancy of the forest lands is in accordance with 

 the regulations. 

 Emergency Concessions. 



If an emergency requires that stock be allowed to enter the Forest 

 immediately, the district forester may authorize the supervisor to 

 allow the stock to enter upon evidence that the fee has been forwarded 

 to the United States depository, the permit to be issued when notice 

 of receipt of the remittance is received. In no case will stock be 

 allowed to enter the Forest before remittance has been made. 



