NATIONAL FOREST MANUAL GRAZING. 59 



Status Determined by Holdings. 



An applicant's status is determined by the total number of all 

 classes of stock owned by him. He can not be a class A cattle owner 

 and a class B sheep owner. If he owns either class of stock in excess 

 of the protective limit for that class he is a class B owner, or if he 

 owns a per cent of the cattle protective limit and also a per cent of 

 the sheep protective limit, which combined axceed 100 per cent, he 

 is in class B. For example, the protective limit being 100 head for 

 cattle and 1,200 head for sheep, if he owned 50 head of cattle and 500 

 head of sheep (92 per cent) he would be in class A, but if he owned 

 75 head of cattle and 750 head of sheep (137 per cent), he would be 

 in class B. An applicant owning sheep and cattle may, however, ba 

 in both class B and class C. 

 Ownership of Ranch Property. 



Ranch property will ordinarily be construed to mean lands pro- 

 ducing cultivated crops which are used for feeding live stock, but in 

 localities where the production of feed is not a requisite to the stock 

 business, the ownership of spring and fall range or lambing grounds 

 by a bona fide local resident dependent upon the use of the range, 

 should be given nearly the same if not equal weight with the owner- 

 ship of cultivated lands. The same is true of the ownership of water 

 rights which control adjoining National Forest range. Property of 

 this sort must be commensurate with the number of stock and 

 actually dependent for its value upon National Forest range. To 

 illustrate, a spring and fall range and lambing ground sufficient for 

 1,000 head of sheep might justify the approval of an application for 

 a permit to graze 1,000 or less sheep upon a National Forest during 

 the summer season, but not of an application to graze 2,000 head of 

 sheep during the summer season or to lamb and graze 1,000 head of 

 sheep during the spring and fall seasons. 

 Dependence Upon Range. 



A person will be considered dependent upon the use of the National 

 Forest range when the forest lands adjacent to his own contain the 

 only available stock range, and the grazing of a limited number of 

 stock is essential to his success in the development of his land. 



Residence. 



Residence is simply an index in determining the degree of depend- 

 ence. A person residing at a distance from a National Forest must 

 have other ranges open to him and can not be considered so dependent 

 upon forest range as one residing near by. 

 Retention of Preferences. 



Grazing preferences can only be retained by a continual use of a 

 range. Applicants who apply to graze a reduced number of stock 

 can not expect range to be reserved for them for a higher number 

 later on. In the case of a voluntary reduction other applications 

 may be approved for the number by which the first permit was 

 reduced. The preference thus gained will not be surrendered because 

 the first permittee applies a year or two later to graze the original 

 number of stock. 

 Nonuse of Range. 



Applications from persons with established preferences will not be 

 disapproved for nonuse of the range during one year if a statement 

 giving satisfactory reasons is filed with the supervisor before the 



