. American forestry. Forests and forestry. IMPROVEMENT IN RANGE CONDITIONS 113. Moving a Camp of Grazing Examiners in Accessible Areas. important af all has enabled the stock- men to successfully raise higher grade stock and to get larger calf crops. The construction of fences has also been an important factor in preventing the spread of disease and reducing the losses from poisonous plants. Early in the administration of the Forests it was found that pastures were needed for holding stock which was being gathered for transfer to other ranges or for shipment to market and provision was made to
. American forestry. Forests and forestry. IMPROVEMENT IN RANGE CONDITIONS 113. Moving a Camp of Grazing Examiners in Accessible Areas. important af all has enabled the stock- men to successfully raise higher grade stock and to get larger calf crops. The construction of fences has also been an important factor in preventing the spread of disease and reducing the losses from poisonous plants. Early in the administration of the Forests it was found that pastures were needed for holding stock which was being gathered for transfer to other ranges or for shipment to market and provision was made to meet this need. The pasture privilege was afterwafd extended to include pastirres for saddle horses and pure bred or graded stock and to give settlers a way of holding a limited amount of winter range adjacent to their ranches. This regulation has been taken advantage of very generally and the large nimiber of pastures which have been built under it show in another way the advantages of a proper con- trol in the use of the range. DEVELOPMENT OF WATER FACILITIES Next to grass the most important need of livestock is water. It was found that mush coiild be done in the way of improving the stock watering facilities on the National Forests and right in the beginning we started clean- ing out the seeps and springs, piping the water into troughs, building reser- voirs and doing whatever else might help to increase or secure a better use of the water supply. During 1912 a report was secured from each Forest, covering the water development work done since the Forests were put under administration. The figures secured show 676 water-development projects to the close of 1912. Of these, 173 were developed exclusively by the Forest Service, and as many more in coopera- tion with permittees; and 320 solely by the stockmen. Complete figures are not available as to the new acreage of range brought into utilization by this water develop- ment. In Arizona and New Mexico alone, however, 65,000 a
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