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by the Bull Run reserve, the other extending trom the summit of Mount 
Hood southward to the boundary between townships 3 and 4 south, 
bounded on the east by White River and on the west by Zigzag Creek 
and the line between ranges 7 and 8 east; (2) all that portion of the 
reserve north of the Barlow road and west of the summit of the divide 
east of the East Fork of Hood River; (3) all that portion of the reserve 
north of an east-and-west line drawn through the northern boundary 
of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation. 
Huckleberry patches.—In this connection one of Oregon’s peculiar 
institutions should not be lost sight of. This is the practice common 
to the ranchers and towuspeople who live near the Cascade Range of 
resorting to the mountains in summer to pick huckleberries. There 
are areas in the mountains which from late August to October pro- 
duce annually an enormous amount of wild huckleberries (chiefly the 
kind known to botanists as Vaccinium membranaceum), and the present 
inhabitants, following an aboriginal custom of the Indians, go into 
the mountains, usually a whole family together, often driving 100 miles, 
and camp out tor a few weeks, hunting, fishing, and picking huckle- 
berries. One such area, known as Huckleberry Mountain, lies about 
12 miles southwest of Crater Lake, immediately south of Union Creek, 
an affluent of Rogue River. it is not included within the boundaries of 
the proposed closed area at Crater Lake, described above, and should 
ultimately be made a closed area. Immense huckleberry patches are 
situated on and immediately south of Mount Hood, and should be 
taken into consideration in defining the closed area of that vicinity. 
Another favorite huckleberry patch lies on the west slope of the Cas- 
cades south of the Santiam-Prineville road, but it was not visited by 
the party, nor was its exact location ascertained. 
Finally, with reference to closed areas, as the population of Oregon 
increases the recreation of the people will require the setting aside of 
additional areas of resort from which sheep must be excluded. No 
place will be attractive as a public resort if the vegetation is eaten off 
every year by sheep, nor can camping parties, under such circumstances, 
find suitable pasturage for their horses. 
GRAZING PERMITS. 
The system of regulations here proposed, which may be called the 
“special-tract permit system,” is, in brief, the granting of the grazing 
privilege to sheep owners in return for the protection of the reserve 
from forest fires and overgrazing. It is proposed to grant to each 
owner a permit to graze on a Specified territory a certain number of 
sheep, such as that area can support without detriment; to give him 
the exclusive right to graze on that area; and to protect him in that 
right; at the same time requiring on his part that he confine himself to 
that area; fulfill all the terms of his agreement with the Government; 
