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CALIFORNIA ing or moving grain or hay, and the LOUISIANA 



T'HAT public sentiment in California in carrying of two suital)le chemical fire ex- 'T'HE Commissioner of Conservation, with 



favor of forestry is steadily growing tinguishers by harvester^ and hay presses. the approval of the Forestry Advisory 



is shown by the measures which passed The section regarding the leaving of camp Board, has formally promulgated the spark 



the last Legislature and received executive fires unextinguished was strengthened by arrester regulations called for by the 



sanction. Besides the general appropria- the substitution of the words, "Without Louisiana law passed in 1918. Louisiana, 



tion bill which carries items of salaries, some person in attendance" for "upon de- which has so many excellent forestry laws, 



support and printing of the State Board of parture." feels proud to join those few states in the 



Forestry, ten other measures which have A chapter in the Civil Code was revised Union which have laws requiring the use 



to do with forestry in California were and now gives the United States the right, of proper spark arresters and ash pans on 



passed. heretofore limited to the state and counties, the trunk lines and tram roads of the state. 



A new board of forestry was created to of recovering in a civil action of double So far as we know the regulations for 



consist of five persons, the State Forester the damages sustained from fires through wood-burning locomotives and skidders 



and four persons appointed by the Cover- wilfulness, malice or negligence, as well are the first passed by any state; wood as 



nor, one of whom shall be familiar with as the actual damages if the fires occurred a fuel is not used to any extent today in 



the timber industry, one with the livestock accidentally, and the full costs incurred in logging operations except in the South, 



industry, one with the grain and hay in- fighting any such fires. where our splendid fat pine knots make a 



dustry, and one at large. Another measure . mighty fine substitute for coal. The regu- 



provided for the prevention and suppres- COLORADO lations as issued require coal burning loco- 



sion of forest fires which are defined as any . ^~txi^ i , ■ r , r- motives to be equipped with "cabbage- 



£ L • 11 J 1 J A CTING upon the advice of the State 1,1..., j i-j u -ri 1 



fires burnmg uncontrolled on any lands J\ -^ x^uc-.^ti jit . head stacks and solid ash pans. The coal- 



, , ,, . , . , Forester, the State Board of Land , . , . , 



covered wholly or in part by timber, grass, „ . . , , r -, , ■ , burning regulations require no more than 



,' . „ . , ,. Commissioners has definitely committed u ^ • 1 j .l » j j 



grain or other inflammable vegetation. ..... , „ . , , what is already the standard equipment on 



° _^ _, , , „ ^ ,, Itself in favor of effecting an exchange of ^, ^ • ■» c -i j • ^u 



The State Board of Forestry was author- , , , , , ■ „ ■ -.,. , o.^ the great majority of railroads in the 



, ..... . . J. , • school lands, chiefly sections Id and ^6, ,, .. , c^ > j j 1 j 1 ^u 



ized to divide the state into districts, em- , . .,.,,,. , ^ , , United States and are modeled along the 



, ,. . „ , r lying within the National Forests of the ,■ r ^t. n -^^ l i~ 1 l- j xi 



ploy district fire rangers and pay fire- ^ ^ , , , , lines of the British Columbia and New 



, , . . ., . ,. State, for an equal acreage and value of ,, , , ^. „, ... , , 



fighting expenses under specined condi- , . , , . , ,. York regulations. Ihere will be, however, 



,^ J J ^1. ^ i- lands to be chosen in one or two bodies i- , . • r .u ■ .• j 



tions. It was provided that co-operative . a tightening up ot the inspection under our 



agreements for the prevention and sup- '^"^'" ^""^^ National Forest, in order that regulations. Skidders and loaders or other 



pression of forest fires or for reforestation ^ ^tate Forest may be created and handled portable engines used in the woods must b 



and afforestation purposes might be en- unaer forestry principles. equipped with screens in or over the smoke 



tered into with federal, county, municipal The State Forester, together with Crosby stacks. 



and private agencies. An appropriation of Hoar, of the United States Forest Service, The way the lumbermen and railroads of 

 $25,000 for the biennial period was made has examined within the Rout, White the state have co-operated with the Depart- 

 to put this measure into effect. River and Arapaho National Forests areas ment of Conservation in these matters is a 



In addition, a number of forested and which might serve the purpose of the State, very hopeful sign. Two conferences called 



brush-covered regions in the state were During the summer a crew of National ^y '^e department in March, one for the 



given protection through the following ap- porest men are examining State lands '''^'" '^o^^^, the other for the trunk lines, 



propriations for the biennial period: ^^,,j^,^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ examined by the "'"^ "^'^ ^«" =»ended and gave an op- 



Fighting forest fires, etc., in the San c» . t- ^ j .i t- . c- ■ portunity for everyone to be heard. A great 



r-,. r~ ■ .1 c- ,- L • 1 »» State horester, and the Forest Supervisors i , , ,. , . , 



Dimas Canyon in the San Gabriel Moun- ,,,.,' many of the tram roads did not wait for 



. • ei enn c u^- c .. n • »u are assisting on other National Forests. ,, . e , , , 



tains, ?l,bOO; fighting forest fires in the _ ,. . , . the issuance of the spark arrester rcgula- 



San Gabriel Canyon in the San Gabriel Preliminary to this exchange the State ^j^,,^ ^^ ^^^-^ ^^ j,^^^^,, „,^ ^^^-^^^ ^^^^„,. 



Mountains. $3,000; prevention of forest Forester has reported on nearly 28,000 tended by the conference, but got busy at 



fires in the San Antonio Canyon in the acres of State land within National For- ^^^^ ^^j ordered the equipment. Other of 



San Gabriel Mountains, $.5,000; for refor- ests, but the total area of such lands is the tram roads were found to have used 



estation, construction and maintenance of approximately 115,000 acres. cabbage-head stacks and similar device; 



fire lines and trails, Angeles National The timbered school lands in the past for many years and they were unanimous 



Forest, $5,000; prevention and extinguish- have been administered with great handi- in boosting the department's efforts to elim- 



ment of fires in Tamalpais forest fire dis- caps due to the small areas in single '"'^te railroad fires, 



trict, $5,000. bodies, scattered all over the mountainous Never again when the fire warden talks 



The above appropriations were made on p^^,;^^ ^f j,^^ 5^4^,^ ^„j ^„^j^^ ^^^,^ ^,,^ to the Louisiana farmer or stockman about 



the condition that the various a.gencies re- regulations which were not comhuive to Preventing fires in the woods can that indi- 



ceiviiig direct benefit from this protection, . r . .■ vidiial come back and sav "why do you pick 



, »i c T->- T- •. T- 1 good forestry practice. , ' . . 



such as the San Dimas Fruit Exchange, ,.,,.' , j , onus? These dummy engines 



Azusa Irrigation Company, San Antonio /' '^ ^^^^^"^^ *'^,=!' ''^'^ vr^VostA exchange, ^^^ locomotives set more fires in a day 

 Waaler Company and Tamalpais forest fire "■''^'^h is in a preliminary stage at present, ^^^^ ^^ ^^ -^ ^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ g^, 

 district contribute an equal amount. ^ill result, if effected, in marked advan- ^fj^^ them?" We feel that if the farmers 

 Law enforcement measures were strength- tage to the State and in considerable ad- ^nj stockmen will give us as good co-op- 

 ened through an amendment to the Penal vantage to the United States Forest Serv- eration as the lumber companies and trunk 

 Code that requires an effective spark ar- ice, which will not have to contend with lines seem to be willing to give us under 

 resting device to be installed on any gas the administrative disadvantages of hold- the new regulations, we shall soon have the 

 tractor, oil-burning engine, gas-propelled ing within the boundaries of National For- fire situation in Louisiana eating out of our 

 harvesting machine or auto truck harvest- ests certain alienated areas. hands. 



