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Sierra Club Bulletin. 



FORESTRY NOTES. 



Wm, E. Colby, Editor. 

 Walter L. Huber, Assistant Editor. 



Stock in the On account of lack of feed in the lower ranges, due to 

 High Sierra, unusually dry weather conditions, many cattle and 

 sheep men have applied to the Forest Service for 

 relief. To meet this emergency,, certain high Sierra ranges ordinarily 

 closed to stock will be used this season. Approximately 40,000 head of 

 sheep and 2,000 head of cattle will be cared for. Definite areas within 

 these ranges have been reserved for campers' stock. 



Timber Sales Timber sale operations on the National Forests in 

 IN California. California have been increasing at a rapid rate dur- 

 ing the past few months and a number of important 

 sales have been made. The largest of these was an 800,000,000-foot 

 sale to the Sierra Sugar Pine Company on the Sierra National 

 Forest. About seventy miles of railroad will be required in con- 

 nection with this sale and two years are allowed in the contract for 

 preliminary construction work before operations actually begin. The 

 contract covers a cutting period of twenty years. This sale is in one 

 of the best sugar and yellow pine regions of the State. Another sale of 

 considerable size was made to the M. A. Burns Timber Company on the 

 Shasta Forest, for a total of 182,273,000 feet. — American Forestry. 



The States We have seen the policies advocated by the 



Rights Movement. Forest Service in the handling of timber, grazing, 

 water power and lands, win their way to recog- 

 nition in the face of bitter opposition, solely on their merits. 

 Under national administration of the grazing privileges, stock wars 

 have ceased, and the number of small owners of stock has increased 

 tremendously. Lumbermen have found that they could do business with 

 the Government, and of late have been willing to undertake contracts 

 for twenty years. Settlers are given lands, but fraudulent claims are not 

 permitted. It can now be stated with truth that the population directly 

 dependent on and residing within or near these national forests is 

 almost unanimous in its support of the present pohcy and ready to 

 defend the Government against all attacks. The only local exceptions 

 to this rule are found to be individuals who have been prevented from 

 acquiring something to which they were not fairly entitled, such as a 

 fraudulent mining claim or a timber homestead. 



