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Show J Forest Facts : By Wei's Thursby Forest Ranger I On the National Forests, during dur-ing the calendar year 19!. permits were issued to 30,000 ranchers and farmers to graze 1 1,203,200 cattle, 3.712.9S0 sheep. and some swine under pay permit per-mit and S9.932 cattle, 22.0(57 sheep, and 3,713 swine under free permit,, plus an approximately approxi-mately equivalent number of stock under six months of age. National Forest Wildlife i The number of hunters and fishermen have been: For 19'. t. S 10,000 hunters and 1.430.000 fisherman. For 1915, 1,03.), 000 hunters, an increase of 23 per cent; 1,922.000 fisherman, an ! increase of 33 per cent. In 19 Hi there were 1, 315.000 hunters, an increase of 30 per cent, and j 2.730.000 fisherman, an increase ' of 42 per cent. I I The National Forests provide the largest block of public-shooting public-shooting grounds in the Nation. |