This chapter concerns grazing lands in general and in Alaska. Specifically, it provides for grazing districts, their establishment, restrictions, prior rights, rights-of-way; hearing and notice, hunting or fishing rights; protection, administration, regulation, and improvement of districts, rules and regulations; study of erosion and flood control; grazing permits, vested water rights, permits not to create right in land; fences, wells, reservoirs, and other improvements; grazing stock for domestic purposes; use of natural resources; rights of way; development of mineral resources; homestead entry within district or withdrawn lands, classification, and preferences; cooperation with associations, land officials, and agencies engaged in conservation or propagation of wildlife, local hearings on appeals, acceptance and use of contributions; disposition of moneys received; availability for improvements; appropriation of moneys received, application of public-land laws to Indian ceded lands, and application for mineral title to lands; cooperation with governmental departments; coordination of range administration; lands under national-forest administration; lease of isolated or disconnected tracts for grazing, and preferences; lease of State, county, or privately owned lands, period of lease and rental; administration of leased lands; availability of contributions received; disposition of receipts, and availability for leasing of land; state police power not abridged; board of grazing district advisers, composition, meetings, and duties; animals and equipment for field employees; withdrawal of lands for war or national defense purposes, and payment for cancellation of permits or licenses; and rental payments in advance in case of withdrawal of lands for war or national defense purposes. The chapter also declares that it is the policy of Congress in promoting the conservation of the natural resources of Alaska to provide for the protection and development of forage plants and for the beneficial utilization thereof for grazing by livestock under such regulations as may be considered necessary and consistent with the purposes and provisions of this subchapter. In effectuating this policy the use of these lands for grazing shall be subordinated (a) to the development of their mineral resources, (b) to the protection, development, and utilization of their forests, (c) to the protection, development, and utilization of their water resources, (d) to their use for agriculture, and (e) to the protection, development, and utilization of such other resources as may be of greater benefit to the public.