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Grazing areas. 



Water powers, mileage of driveable stream, etc. 

 Camp grounds for pleasure seekers. 



Rock, gravel, etc., or materials which may be disposed of or 

 used in the work on the forest. 



1. In ordinary valuation survey these. matters are merely noted 

 as they appear to the forester. There is no time for exploration or 

 study. If sufficiently evident and important they are made subject 

 of special examination or else they are left for others to explore, 

 as is usually the case in development of these special resources, 

 where the future applicant does the prospecting and calls attention 

 to the matter by request for purchase or lease. 



2. Where grazing lands are of importance as on many of the 

 National Forests, their examination is made a special task. The 

 land is covered in a manner similar to that used in valuation survey 

 of forest lands; and the facts are noted on a regularly prepared 

 form in which the following items deserve consideration : 



a. Area and topography and altitude. 



b. vSoil and drainage. 



c. Cover, grass, or brush or both, kinds and density. 



d. Quality of range by certain standards, i. e., i, 2d or 3d class 

 grass lands, etc. 



e. Injury, if any and cause of this. 



f. Possibility of improving range. 



g. Suggestions regarding treatment in the immediate future, 

 to V. Inch should be added : Time when free from snow, i. e., open 

 season ; time when ready to drive in ; capacity to carry stock for .this 

 open season ; access to area, and possibility of giving each man a 

 separate range. 



III. INFORMATION NOT OF THE PROPERTY ITSELF. 



While this is now commonly omitted in Germany, it is of 

 greatest importance to us, where everything is new and changing, 

 and where the owner may he in New York and the property in 

 Michigan or Idaho. 



