NATIONAL FORESTS WEST OF THE GREAT PLAINS 



The National Reserved Forests westward of The Great Plains now 

 embrace about 170,000,000 acres, or 281,562 square miles. Portions are 

 suitable for the grazing of cattle and sheep, and are utilized for that pur- 

 pose. Mr. Smith Riley, an experienced U. S. District Forester, has said: 

 "There is hardly a township of the 170,000,000 acres of National Forest 

 lands but what one-fifth to one-third of it is suitable only for game ranges. 

 * * * At least one-fifth to one-third cannot, now, and never can be used 

 by domestic stock." 



