Excerpt from The Handling of Sheep on the National Forests: La Manipulacion De Las Ovejas En Los Bosques Nacionales Forest and watershed protection must be accomplished by regulated grazing. This means that the total number of stock upon the National Forests must not be greater than the range will properly support and that the grazing seasons must conform to the cycle of plant growth. The latter is necessary because the removal of the forage too early will result in weaken ing the parent plant and prevent the production of fertile seed, thus making it possible for the plants which are not good feed to take the place of those which are removed by live stock before they have a chance to grow and ma ture seed. The number of stock which a forest range permanently will support will depend almost altogether upon the methods of handling the stock on the range. If sheep are properly handled they will make better gains and do less damage to the range than if they are improperly handled. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.