Grazing Rules Relaxed for Forest Reserves
Federal authorities grant a one-year reprieve on new forest grazing restrictions, allowing stockmen to continue operations through the 1905 season.
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Grazing regulations will not be applied this season on forest reserves created since May 1. The season is well advanced and all stock which was occupying the range at the time of the creation of the reserve, or which was grazed thereon during the previous season, will be allowed to graze during the season of 1905, with the understanding that such reduction in numbers as may be found necessary will be made in the allowance for the season of 1906.
“All stock which was occupying the range... will be allowed to graze during the season of 1905.”
Conflicts over federal land management and grazing rights have been a constant thread in Eastern Washington since the turn of the century. While the bureaucracy of the U.S. Forest Service has evolved, the tension between public land conservation and the economic necessity of local ranchers remains a prominent feature of the regional political landscape.
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