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CLOSED. ARBAS.~ 
The first step toward a satisfactory system of sheep-grazing regula- 
tions in the Cascade reserve is to provide absolute protection for those 
places which the people of the State require as public resorts or for 
reservoir purposes. The grandeur of the natural scenery of the Cas- 
cades is coming to be better known. Even before the forest reserve 
was created a movement was on foot to have the Mount Hood region 
and the Crater Lake region set aside as national parks, and since the 
reserve was created the eminent desirability and propriety of the earlier 
movement has been clearly recognized, both in the continued efforts 
of the people to keep sheep from grazing in these regions and in 
the concession in the petition of the sheep owners that if the Cascade 
reserve as a whole be abolished the Crater Lake and Mount Hood 
regions should be maintained as smaller and separate reserves on which 
sheep benot allowed to graze. Inthe tentative regulations of the Gen- 
eral Land Office, dated June 30, 1897, the justice of these representa- 
tions was officially recognized by a.rule excluding sheep from grazing 
“upon or in the vicinity of the Bull Run Reserve [a small reservoir 
reserve contiguous to the Cascade reserve at its northwestern extrem- 
ity], Crater Lake, Mount Hood, Mount Rainier [in another reserve in 
the State of Washington], or other well-known places of public resort 
or reservoir supply.” Before this exclusion can be made effective the 
exact limits of the areas specified must be described by metes and 
bounds and the boundaries marked. 
Crater Lake.-—How much should be included in the closed areas at 
Mount Hood and Crater Lake is a question to which considerable 
attention was paid in the field. After going twice carefully over 
the ground at Crater Lake and consulting with various men well 
informed on the subject, especially Capt. O. C. Applegate, of Klamath 
Falls, the writer questions whether a better area can be adopted than 
that covered by the special Crater Lake contour map, published by 
the United States Geological Survey. which extends from longitude 
122° to 122° 15’, and from latitude 42° 50’ to 48° 4’. At present no 
sheep are grazed in the vicinity of Crater Lake, but-for a few years, up 
to and including 1896, a small amount of summer grazing was carried 
on in the watershed of Anna Creek and that of the upper Rogue River. 
Mount Hood.—l\t was our intention to submit a report on suitable 
boundaries for the closed area about Mount Hood, but as various peti- 
tions and memorials on the subject have been presented directly to the 
Secretary of the Interior and are under consideration, no recommenda- 
_ tions are here submitted. It may be well to state, however, that three 
principal propositions have been made as to the boundaries of the pro- 
posed closure. In the order of their size, beginning with the smallest, 
they are as follows: (1) two roughly triangular blocks, one extending 
from the summit of Mount Hood north to the edge of the reserve, 
bounded on the east by the East Fork of Hood River and on the west 
