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FOREST SERVICE MANUAL
CARSON NATIONAL FOREST
TAOS, NEW MEXICO
FSM 2200 – RANGE MANAGEMENT
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Supplement No.: 2200-2013-1
Effective Date: March 5, 2013
Duration: This supplement is effective until superseded or removed.
Approved: JUAN E. (BUCK) SANCHEZ
Forest Supervisor
Date Approved: 3/5/2013
Posting Instructions: Supplements are numbered consecutively by title and calendar year.
Post by document; remove the 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 number 78
to FSM 2230.
New Document(s):
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Superseded Document(s) by
Issuance Number and
Effective Date:
Number 77, 03/1989
2 Pages
Digest:
2204.3 – Re-issues this supplement with minor grammatical and punctuation corrections
throughout the entire text.
Moves from the last to the first paragraph the specifications about delegating authority to Acting
District Rangers.
Item 11: changes “Plans” to “Instructions.”
Item 12: changes “Production-Utilization Studies” to “monitoring methodologies and data
collected from these approved methodologies.”
Carson National Forest Supplement 2200-2013-1
EFFECTIVE DATE: 3/5/2013
DURATION: This supplement is effective until superseded or removed.
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Item 13: removes duplicated phrase concerning Allotment Management Plan. Removes the
exception to approve Environmental Analysis for allotments located partially or wholly within a
National Forest Wilderness.
Item 14: adds delegation of authority to approve and issue on/off grazing permits.
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DURATION: This supplement is effective until superseded or removed.
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2204 - RESPONSIBILITIES
2204.3 - Forest Supervisors
District Rangers on the Carson National Forest are delegated the following authorities. These authorities are
not to be delegated to an Acting District Ranger, except when the District Ranger is scheduled to be gone for
more than 21 calendar days or the District Ranger position is vacant.
1. Approve applications for and issue livestock use and temporary grazing permits, and cancel such for
violation of the provisions and requirements under which they were issued.
2. Approve applications for, issue and validate term grazing permits in accordance with established
policy.
3. Approve request for refund or credit toward the following year's fees of unused grazing fees.
4. Confirm Waiver of Term Grazing Permit and Escrow Waiver of Term Grazing Permit Privileges.
5. Approve base property for term grazing permits.
6. Approve nonuse for personal convenience for up to six consecutive years, and nonuse agreements for
resource protection.
7. Suspend or revoke up to 100 percent of term grazing permit privileges for violations applicable to
laws and regulations, or the provisions and requirements under which it was issued.
8. Modify term grazing permits in accordance with established policy.
9. Approve pre and post grazing season extensions. Extensions in-excess of five days must be billed for
in advance of use.
10. Issue Bills for Collection for grazing fees including fees for excess and unauthorized use.
11. Approve Annual Operating Instructions.
12. Approve Range Allotment Analysis, monitoring methodologies, and data collected from these
approved methodologies.
13. Approve Environmental Analysis for Allotment Management Plans.
14. Approve application for and issue private land grazing permits and on/off grazing permits. Cancel
such for violations of the terms and conditions under which issued.
15. Special delegations to Jicarilla, El Rito, and Canjilon District Rangers:
a.
Approve maintenance agreements for wild free-roaming horses.
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b. Convey title of ownership for wild free-roaming horses.
c.
Dispose of wild free-roaming horses as an act of mercy.
d. Dispose of unplaceable excess wild free-roaming horses.
e.
Enter into agreement with other Federal agencies, State or Local governments, and private
individuals and organizations for management and protection of wild free-roaming horses.
f.
Appoint non-Forest Service personnel to assist in specific situations of short duration in the
administration of the Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act.