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Conservation Virtually Self-Suppobting 10 



The Conservation Commission for the past fiscal year turned into the 

 State Treasury $381,000. The commercial value of the product of State 

 fish hatcheries and game farm was $215,000. Total, $596,000; total 

 departmental expenditures, $640,000. 



I THINGS ACHIEVED 



Propagation of Fish and Game 11 



The average annual output of State fish hatcheries, 1911-14, was 821,420,- 

 366; in 1907-10 it was 428,187,476. 



Fighting Forest Fires 12 



A chain of mountain observation stations, equipped with telephone, 

 detects fires at their inception. There are 51 of these stations, two and 

 one-half times as many as prior to 1911, when the Conservation Commis- 

 sion was created. New Jersey, inadequately equipped with mountain sta- 

 tions, had 200,000' acres, a tenth of its protected forest area, burned 

 last fall. 



Use of Oil Burning Locomotives Required 15 



Order of 1909 reaffirmed by the Public Service Commission last March. 



Preventable Fires 16 



Hundreds of forest fires caused by carelessness of smokers, fishermen, 

 campers and hunters each year. 



Conservation in Holy Writ 16 



New York's Forest Domain : Forest Reproduction IT 



Trees planted on State land for the past four years number about 

 one and one-half times the total so planted for eight years prior to 

 1911. Trees supplied for reforestation of private lands 1911-'14, 

 10,000,000, about four times the total supplied for that purpose in all the 

 years prior to 1911. Young trees now in State nurseries, 32,900,000. 

 of which 10,000,000 are available for 1915 planting. 



Cuba Reservoir 18 



Trespass on State Land 18 



Less than $200 worth of timber was removed by trespass in 1914. 

 Determined enforcement of the law and its penalties has made deliberate 

 theft of forest timber practically a thing of the past. 



Protection of Fish and Game 19 



The protective field force successfully prosecuted 2,296 out of a total 

 of 2,604 cases in 1914. 



Additional Protection 20 



Schedule of orders granted by the Commission under section 152 of 

 the Conservation Law for additional protection of fish and game in 

 various counties and localities. 



Hunting Accidents 22 



Oyster Culture, Sanitary Inspection, Etc.. 22 



Migratory Bird Law 23 



Apportionment of Water Supply 24 



Tabular exhibit of the work of the Commission in equitably appor- 

 tioning the State's water supply resources among the inhabitants thereof. 



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