954 JOURNAL OF FORESTRY 



This land is largely denuded and much of it was tax-title land. The 

 first reserves were acquired in 1897. The maximum price to be paid 

 was limited by law to $5 per acre until 191 5, when the limit was raised 

 to $10 per acre ; but the average cost of the land purchased has been 

 only $2.27. The State employs 150 rangers and foresters on these re- 

 serves, largely for purposes of fire protection. Eight thousand acres 

 have been planted. The commissioner of forestry is empowered to 

 make sales of timber and other products consistently with the mainte- 

 nance of the reserves in permanently productive condition. 



Maryland has four State, reserves, with a total area of 3,000 acres. 

 Fifty thousand dollars is now being spent in the purchase of additional 

 lands on the watershed of the Patapsco River near Baltimore. Of the 

 3,000 acres now owned, 2,000 acres were received as gifts. Three of 

 the reserves have little timber, but small sales have been possible. The 

 fourth, which is only ten miles from Baltimore, is well timbered, but is 

 maintained as a State park. 



Ohio in 191 5 appropriated $10,000 for the purchase and reforesta- 

 tion of State forests. The purchase price was limited by the law to 

 $10 per acre. Arrangements are now being made under this law to 

 secure tracts amounting to 1,730 acres. 



Indiana bought 2,000 acres of land for a State forest in 1903 at a 

 cost of $8 per acre. The land was partly woodland and partly worn- 

 out farm land. It is under the administration of the State forester. 



Michigan first reserved 34,000 acres of its State lands in 1901. The 

 reserves have been increased at the present time to about 300,000 acres 

 in 52 areas. The annual report for the year ending June 30, 1914, of 

 the Public Domain Commission, in the charge of which the reserves 

 are placed, gave the area of the reserves at that time as 235,246 acres. 

 There is also under the charge of the commission an additional 300,000 

 acres of land, which have been held in reserve since 1913, although it 

 has not yet been definitely designated as "forest reserve." Both the 

 reserves and the class of land just referred to are almost entirely tax- 

 title lands which have been lumbered and repeatedly burned. The 

 Public Domain Commission is authorized by law to sell dead and down 

 timber. 



Wisconsin has 342,910 acres of land in its State forest reserve. The 

 State lands were withdrawn in 1903 for examination by the State 

 Board of Forestry through the State forester, and the lands found 

 suitable for a forest reserve, amounting to 233,365 acres, were perma- 

 nently reserved in 1903. Since 1903 the reserve has been increased by 

 additional reservation and by gifts, amounting to 24,272 acres, and by 



