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plying water for irrigation, municipal or domestic 

 purposes may be closed to grazing of any or all 

 kinds of domestic stock when necessary to prevent 

 erosion and floods or diminution in water supply. 

 Camping grounds required for the accormnodation 

 of the public may be closed to the grazing of per- 

 mitted stock. Limited areas which are the natural 

 breeding or feeding grounds of game animals or 

 birds may be closed to grazing. Areas within Na- 

 tional Forests infested seriously by poisonous 

 plants may be closed to grazing. 



Protection of Grazing Interests. The protec- 

 tion of National Forest grazing interests is secured 

 by the prevention of overgrazing, by the preven- 

 tion of damage to roads, trails, or water sources, by 

 the proper bedding of sheep and goats, by the 

 proper disposition of carcasses, by salting the stock 

 and by the proper observation of the national and 

 state live stock and quarantine laws. 



When an owner, who has a permit, is ready to 

 drive in his stock upon the National Forest he must 

 notify the nearest Forest officer concerning the 

 number to be driven in. If called upon to do so he 

 must provide for having his stock counted before 

 entering a National Forest. Each permittee must 



