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continued protests from those interested in the sheep industry. These 
protests finally resulted in a letter, under date of February 10, 1896, 
from the Oregon delegation in Congress to the Department of the 
Interior, recommending that in lieu of the present reserve three smaller 
reserves be made, about Mount Hood, Mount Jefferson, and Crater 
Lake, and that the balance of the Cascade reserve be thrown open. 
Action favorable to this recommendation, however, was never taken 
by the Department. 
During the summer of 1896, under special instructions from the 
Attorney-General of the United States, dated January 10 of the same 
year, several arrests were made of sheep herders, sheep owners, and 
others grazing sheep on the reserve. Later these cases assumed the 
form of civil instead of criminal proceedings, and on September 3, 1896, 
suit was brought in the United States district court of Oregon against 
several owners to enjoin them from grazing within the reserve. These 
suits were pending for several months until, in May, 1897, the Attorney- 
General, in view of probable early legislative action by Congress 
involving a new scheme of administration of the reserves, issued instrue- 
tions that the injunction suits be discontinued. On June 4, 1897, the 
expected legislation by Congress was approved by the President, in 
the form of a provision in the sundry civil appropriation act author- 
izing the Secretary of the Interior to make all necessary regulations 
for the government of the forest reserves.' 
In a series of regulations governing the forest reserves, issued from 
the General Land Office under date of June 30, 1897, the following pro- 
visions are made: 
The pasturing of live stock on the public lands in forest reservations will not be 
interfered with so long as it appears that injury is not being done to the forest 
growth, and the rights of others are not thereby jeopardized. The pasturing of 
sheep is, however, prohibited in all forest reservations, except those in the States of 
Oregon and Washington, for the reason that sheep grazing has been found injurious 
to the forest cover, and therefore of serious consequence in regions where the rainfall 
islimited. The exception in favor of the States of Oregon and Washington is made 
because the continuous moisture and abundant rainfall of the Cascade and Pacific 
coast ranges make rapid renewal of herbage and undergrowth possible. Owners of 
sheep are required to make application to the Commissioner of the General Land 
Ojitice for permission to pasture, stating the number of sheep and the location on the 
reserves where it is desired to graze. Permission will be refused or revoked when- 
ever it shall appear that sheep are pastured on parts of the reserves specially liable 
to injury, or upon and in the vicinity of the Bull Run reserve, Crater Lake, Mount 
Hood, Mount Rainier, or other well-known places of public resort or reservoir supply. 
Permission will also cease upon proof of neglect as to the care of fires made by 
herders, or of the violation by them of any of the forest-reserve regulations. 
These regulations, however, were issued so late in the season that 
the provision regarding permits was ineffective for the summer of 1897, 
as those who pastured on the reserve had already entered it before the 
regulations had been issued. 
1See a review of the subject ina letter from Binger Hermann, Commissioner of the General Land 
Office, to the Secretary of the Interior, published in the Portiand Oregonian for May 23, 1897. 
