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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



private forest lands and should plant 

 these lands at cost, as its forestry em- 

 ployes know the business of tree plant- 

 ing and private owners do not. He 

 also urges the amendment of the State 

 Constitution as follows: (a) To permit 

 the leasing of camp sites in the State 

 Forest Preserves, to afford the people a 

 freer and more satisfactory use and en- 

 joyment of their own recreation grounds ; 

 (b) To permit the utilization of mature 



and dead timber in the Forest Pre- 

 serves, under State supervision, which 

 woiild not only result in a revenue of 

 millions annually to the state, but 

 woidd also improve the condition of the 

 growing timber in several ways; (c) And, 

 to authorize the construction of roads 

 through the Forest Preserves for forest 

 fire protection and other public pur- 

 poses. 



A SOUTH CAROLINA FORESTRY LAW 



A 



DETERMINED effort is to be 

 made to have the South Carolina 

 legislatiu-e pass a forestry law 

 this year which will give to the 

 state the kind of forest management 

 best siiited to the interest of its people. 



The proposed law provides for the 

 appointment of a state board of forestry, 

 comprising nine members, the Governor 

 of the State, the director of the South 

 Carolina State Experiment Station; the 

 Commissioner of Agriculture; the presi- 

 dent of the University of South Caro- 

 lina; the President and the professor of 

 Forestry at Clemson Agricultural Col- 

 lege, and three persons to be appointed 

 by the Governor. 



This board is to appoint a technically 

 trained man as state forester at a salary 

 not to exceed $2,500 a year. He is also 

 to act as secretary of the board. 



The forester is to have charge of all 

 matters pertaining to forestry in the 

 jurisdiction of the state; to carry on an 

 educational forestry campaign by giving 

 lectures, preparing bulletins, advising 

 colleges and schools regarding courses 

 of instruction in forestry; to co-operate 



with towns, corporations and individuals 

 in preparing plans for the utilization, 

 protection, management, and replace- 

 ment of trees, wood-lots and timber 

 tracts, under an agreement that parties 

 obtaining such assistance pay the field 

 expenses of the men employed in pre- 

 paring such plans; to have charge of all 

 the forest wardens, employ proper 

 means to prevent and to fight forest 

 fires and to enforce forest and wood- 

 land laws. 



The law also provides that all rural 

 lands to which the state now has title, 

 or may acquire title, shall if suitable 

 for a forest, be held as a state forest. 

 These lands are then to be used to 

 demonstrate the practical utility of 

 timber culture and for the purpose of 

 forest management. 



Stringent provisions are made in the 

 proposed law for fire protection on the 

 lines approved by the Forest Service. 

 The proposed law also provides for an 

 appropriation of $10,000 for the salary 

 of the state forester and the expense of 

 carrying on his work in 1914. 



There are 36,500,000 young trees in the government's forest nurseries. 



Two tons of cascara hark have just been sold from the Siuslaw national forest, Oregon, at one 

 cent a pound. 



The northernmost national forest is the Chugach in Alaska; the southernmost is the Luquilloin 

 Porto Rico. 



For shingles alone, 750 million feet of timber is cut in that part of the state of Washington which 

 lies west of the Cascades. 



