STATE FOREST NOTES AND LEGISLATION 



MISSISSIPPI 



A forestry bill introduced in the legislature failed of passage. It 

 authorized the establishment of a board of forestry and the appoint- 

 ment of a State forester, and provided for a system of forest protec- 

 tion, management, and replacement, and for a State forestry fund by 

 levying a license tax on the amount of timber cut. In proposing to- 

 secure funds from a license tax, the Louisiana plan was followed. 



NKW JERSEY 



special Effort to Prcz'cnt Fires Eseapiny from Brush Burnings 



A small hand-bill poster calling attention to the requirements of the 

 permit law, which allows no building of fires within 200 feet of the 

 woods or of any ground cover that may carry fire to the woods, has 

 been issued. The intention is for firewardens, patrolmen, and similar 

 officers of the Forest Fire Service to post one or more of these posters 

 on every site where there is any reason to believe burning will shortly 

 be done because of brush that has been cut or of new clearing that is 

 going on. It has been found to be so emphatically true that if resi- 

 dents secure permits they are far more careful than when they do not 

 that this efifort, presumably, will cut down the number of fires from 

 brush burnings, in addition to preventing the large number of viola- 

 tions of the permit clause because of ignorance of the law. Since the 

 fires that start from brush burnings are from 10 to 20 per cent of the 

 total fires in the State annually, a special efifort is being made to curtail 

 this difficulty. 



Special Privileye to the Military 



The large concentration of men at Camp Dix, in New Jersey, which 

 is located on the edge of one of the worst wilderness sections of the 

 South Jersey pines, presented an unusual problem from the forest-fire 

 standpoint. I'y an understanding with the authorities in command, 

 special emphasis is being laid upon the need for care with fire when 

 the men at the camp have occasion to go into the wooded sections for 

 either recreation or official work. The department has made a blanket 

 waiver of the necessity for securing permits for building fires to all 

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