wildlife habitat management, and watershed management will 

 be developed and put into practice. 



5. Up-to-date inventories will be obtained for all commercial 

 forest lands and timber management plans will be completed for 

 all working circles. When completed, they will be maintained 

 by periodic reinventories and revisions. 



6. Approximately three-fourths of the 4.4 million acres of 

 nonstocked and poorly stocked plantable lands will be seeded or 

 planted. Tree nurseries and seed production and storage facili- 

 ties will be improved and expanded to produce the seed and trees 

 for the enlarged reforestation program. 



7. The productive condition of over 11 million of the 30 mil- 

 lion acres of less than saw-log-size stands will be substantially im- 

 proved by plantation care, pruning, weeding, thinning, release 

 cutting, reinforcement planting of lightly stocked areas, and 

 planting new burns in these stands. 



Range Resources 



The development and management of the 60 million acres of range- 

 land in the National Forest System has two major long-range 

 objectives: 



(a) Proper stocking and improvement of the range resource to 

 achieve desirable watershed conditions and sustained high- 

 level production of forage. Over many years the Forest 

 Service has attempted to bring livestock numbers into bal- 

 ance with available forage. This is being done by building 

 up forage production through reseeding, other range- 

 improvement measures, and better management. Where this 

 is not sufficient, necessary adjustments to grazing capacity 

 have been made in either numbers of permitted livestock or 

 season of use. 



(b) Making land suitable for livestock grazing available for use 

 under conditions that promote stability for communities and 

 individuals, and encouraging full development of the range 

 resource with due regard to other resources and uses. 



These policies can be furthered by intensifying management of all 

 range allotments ; obtaining and maintaining desirable forage at high 

 capacity; constructing, rehabilitating, and maintaining range im- 

 provements needed to attain intensive management on all ranges ; and 

 making adjustments in numbers of livestock or seasons of use when 

 necessary. 



In order to make substantial progress toward the long-range ob- 

 jectives, the 10-year program proposals are : 



1. Complete and thereafter keep current range inventories and 

 management plans on all range allotments. 



2. Where stocking adjustments are necessary to balance utiliza- 

 tion and available forage, put these into effect as rapidly as prac- 

 ticable, bearing in mind the needs of the range and other factors. 



3. Separate cattle and sheep grazing on common use areas, and 

 substantially reduce livestock trespass. 



4. Properly coordinate all range use with other resource use. 



5. Eevegetate range and control noxious or poisonous range 

 plants and farm weeds on about 4.0 million acres of rangelands 

 needing one or both treatments. 



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