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FOREST SERVICE MANUAL
NEBRASKA NATIONAL FORESTS & GRASSLANDS
(REGION 2)
CHADRON, NE
FSM 2200 – RANGE MANAGEMENT
CHAPTER – ZERO CODE
Supplement No.: R2-nnfg-2200-2011-1
Effective Date: February 17, 2011
Duration: This supplement is effective until superseded or removed.
Approved: JANE D. DARNELL
Forests & Grasslands Supervisor
Date Approved: 02/16/2011
Posting Instructions: Supplements are numbered consecutively by title and calendar year.
Post by document; remove entire document and replace it with this supplement. Retain this
transmittal as the first page(s) of this document. The last supplement to this title was 2200-20051 to 2200.
New Document(s):
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Superseded Document(s) by
Issuance Number and
Effective Date
N/A
4 Pages
N/A
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2204.3 – Delegates range management responsibilities and authorities under the Forest
Supervisor to District Rangers where applicable. These delegated responsibilities and authorities
cannot be redelegated by the District Rangers to their subordinates.
NNFG SUPPLEMENT 2200-2011-1
EFFECTIVE DATE: 02/17/2011
DURATION: This supplement is effective until superseded or removed.
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2204.3 – District Rangers
Responsibilities and authorities listed below are delegated from the Regional Forester to Forest
Supervisors. Where indicated, they are redelegated to District Rangers.
Responsibility/Authority
Delegated to
District Ranger
1. Establish range allotments or modify range allotment boundaries.
Yes
2. Approve allotment management and wild free-roaming horse
territory plans including those where Wilderness or Wilderness study
areas are involved, after review by Forest Supervisor.
Yes
3. Approve applications for and issue term, temporary, and livestock
use grazing permits.
Yes
4. Approve nonuse of term grazing permits for:
a. Permittee convenience for up to three consecutive grazing
seasons on a year-by-year basis.
b. Resource Protection for no longer than the remaining term of
the term grazing permit.
c. The conduct of rangeland research by a fact-finding
institution or organization.
d. A conservation reserve agreement up to the length of the
approved agreements.
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
5. Confirm waivers and escrow waivers of term grazing permits.
Yes
6. Approve applications for and issue term, temporary, and livestockuse permits.
Yes
7. Establish criteria for issuing, extending, modifying, suspending, or
canceling term grazing, temporary grazing, and livestock-use permits.
No*
8. Modify term grazing permits
Yes
9. Suspend or cancel up to 100 percent of a term grazing, temporary
grazing, or livestock-use permit for violations of terms and
conditions.
Yes
NNFG SUPPLEMENT 2200-2011-1
EFFECTIVE DATE: 02/17/2011
DURATION: This supplement is effective until superseded or removed.
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Responsibility/Authority
Delegated to
District Ranger
10. Develop and approve annual operating instructions (AOI's).
Yes
11. Make seasonal extensions of term grazing, temporary grazing,
and livestock-use permits when justified by current year monitoring.
(All extensions will be charged.)
Yes
12. Issue all Bills for Collection for grazing fees.
Yes
13. Approve refund or credit of unused fees.
Yes
14. Establish base property requirements within limits set by the
Regional Forester.
No*
15. Establish lower limits within limits set by the Regional Forester
No*
16. Issue term grazing permits to Indian tribes on the basis of rights
reserved by treaty.
No*
17. Establish requirements for and approve performance bonds.
Yes
18. Recognize and withdraw recognition of local livestock
associations, and approve special rules for livestock associations.
Yes
19. Issue bill of sale to purchasers of impounded livestock.
Yes
20. Establish audit schedules for National Grassland Grazing
Associations.
No*
21. Determine allowable Land Use Practice costs on National
Grasslands.
Yes
22. Determine, through appraisal, the adjusted value of permanent
range improvements, negotiate and settle compensation cases.
No*
23. Close areas to livestock grazing or open previously closed range,
including livestock driveways, as allowed through the Forest Land
and Resource management Plan process.
No*
NNFG SUPPLEMENT 2200-2011-1
EFFECTIVE DATE: 02/17/2011
DURATION: This supplement is effective until superseded or removed.
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Responsibility/Authority
Delegated to
District Ranger
24. Administer requirements of the Wild Free-Roaming Horse and
Burro Act.
Yes
25. Adjust boundaries or abolish wild free-roaming horse and burro
territories as allowed through the Forest Land and Resource
Management Plan process.
No*
26. Negotiate and authorize exchanges of grazing use with other
Federal and state agencies.
No*
27. Approve agreements with the Bureau of Land Management
under the 1966 Memorandum of Understanding.
No*
28. Approve plans and enter into agreements with local counties for
control of noxious weeds, vegetation destroying insects, animal
disease, and stray or unbranded livestock.
No*
29. Approve agreements and memorandums of understanding with
Bureau of Land Management, Soil Conservation Service (NRCS),
and Science and Education Administration-Extension prepared under
the November 1980 Agreement.
No*
30. Approve agreements under the authority of the 1976 Agreement
between the Forest Service and the Soil Conservation Service
(NRCS).
No*
31. Conduct rangeland analysis and planning to fully implement
ecosystem management principles and Forest Plan goals, objectives,
standards, and guidelines. Approves decision documents for
rangeland projects.
Yes
* This responsibility and authority cannot be delegated from the
Forest Supervisor down to the District Rangers, as per R2
Supplement 2200-2005-1.