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Investigations: 



Proper seasons, carrying capacity, poisonous plants, artificial reseeding, 

 demonstration tests of proper utilization, effect of grazing upon 

 reproduction, and most efficient systems of grazing management to 

 eliminate damage. Herbarium with necessary notes. 

 Map or maps, showing types, water, fences, corrals, topography, grazing dis- 

 tricts, allotments, reserved areas, driveways, or other factors or features 

 whichlnfluence or illustrate the handling of the stock. 



IV. Lands 

 Settlement: 



Soils. (Classification with brief description and a statement of compara- 

 tive agricultural and forest value of each class based upon land 

 values, forest expectation values, etc.) 

 Demand for agricultural lands. Past, present, and future. 

 Policy. (In i, 2, and 3 order, application of policy based upon the pre- 

 ceding classification, results of past policy, service policy, and any 

 other principles as a guide to examiners. Practicability of detailed 

 classification of certain districts in advance of application.) 

 Map, showing soil classification, if data is available. 

 Uses and Easements: 

 Resources. 



Demand. Past, present, and future. 



Policy. (Special features which are important by kinds of uses or ease- 

 ments. Include charges compared with value to users.) 



Water-power: 



Resources. Streams, sites, power. Cost and market data and stream 



measurements. (Tabulate.) 

 Demand. Past, present, and future. 

 Policy. (Special features.) 

 Administrative sites: 



Sites, rights of way, etc., withdrawn, or still needed and to be withdrawn. 

 Include comprehensive plan of rights of way needed for future sales 

 and other uses as well as sites and rights of way required in admin- 

 istration. (Tabulate or show on map.) 

 Administration: 



Special force needed. Other administrative questions. 



Costs. (Summary for use in obtaining total forest expenditures in 

 Section VII.) 

 Investigation: 



Map or maps showing status, location of uses, easements, water-power pro- 

 jects, administrative sites, etc. 



V. Protection 



Fire: (By divisions or geographical subdivisions, if advisable.) 



Liability. Statement of value of destructible resources by classes, and 



for districts or regions. 



Timber, expectation value of young growth, forage. 



Arbitrary value per acre of watershed protection. (Possible money 



damage. Tabulate.) 

 Hazard or risk. Statement by types or regions based upon character of 



stand, danger of fires starting, and difficulty and cost of suppression. 



(Should be based in part upon a study of past experience.) 

 Protection required. (Principles which sum up on the basis of liability 



and hazard the relative amount of protection needed in specified 



parts of the forest.) 



