AUSTRALIAN RECOMMENDATIONS. XV. 
123. License conditions or timber sale provisoes should stipulate that 
all forest users must report the outbreak of bush fires, and personally assist 
to extinguish them. 
124. Arrangements should be made beforehand with non-forest users 
who are resident in the locality similarly to report outbreaks and assist in 
suppression. 
125. A fire study should be made for each State forest, and a fire plan 
prepared, embracing the results of this study, and the measures of fire control 
to be undertaken for the specific area. 
126. The keystone of the fire plan is the proposed forest overseer, who 
should maintain a constant lookout during the fire season, and upon the 
occurrence of a fire should set the fire plan in motion and superintend the 
work of suppression. 
(7.) Grazing. 
The efficacy of fire protection policies depends very largely 
indeed upon the grazing policy. 
But, more than that, the economic use of the large forest fodder 
resource of tree, shrub, and herb which occurs on the forest estate, 
is a subject which intimately concerns the forest administration, 
since it has a large bearing upon the question of utilisation of the 
timber supplies. 
127. Forest grazing control should be vested wholly in the Forest Service. 
128. I recommend the establishment of a separate branch to deal with the 
forest fodder business; and the appointment of a grazing expert to organise 
and control that business in accordance with forestry interests. 
129. A scheme of grazing reconnaissance on United States of America 
Forest Service lines should be developed, as a vehicle for stocktaking of the 
forest forage resource. 
130. The system of forest leasing for grazing purposes should be abolished 
absolutely ; it should be replaced by a system of annual grazing permits on 
a charge per. capita basis, subject to such conditions as are necessary in the 
forest interest, and such royalties as represent a fair and reasonable market 
value, and revocable at the discretion of the forest administration. 
131. In the issue of such grazing permits preference should be given to 
forest users and adjoining residents. 
132. A maximum number of stock should be fixed for each State forest, 
and for each permittee. Reductions should be made where the interests of 
the forest growth require. 
133. Grazing operations should be limited to the period best suited to the 
forest needs. 
134. Endeavour should be made to allot each class of stock to individual 
ranges. 
135. Salting, as a measure of forest protection, should be a condition 
of the permit. 
136. The forest overseer of the State forest should be in immediate charge 
of grazing operations, and exploitation of the forest forage resource. Where 
necessary, herdsman-forest guards might be employed to assist him. 
137. The adoption of the grazing system and procedure proposed would. 
pave the way also for direct forage exploitation by the State if such should 
be deemed advisable. 
138. Special measures should be taken to conserve and control the valu- 
able drought-tree forage of the inland districts. Its disposal should be regulated 
closely under grazing permits carrying royalties approximating as closely as 
possible to the real and ascertainable value of the forage. 
