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people toward the forest service is shown by the fact that the 

 owners of this plantation promptly agreed to its destruction. 



As a result of the widespread forest fire damage last year, or 

 as a reflection of more enlightened public sentiment, or perhaps 

 of both, various State Legislatures have passed, or have under 

 consideration, new forest laws or amendments to the old statutes 

 which are bound to be helpful, particularly in relation to forest 

 fires. In the West, California has added to its forest law of 

 1905 an educational office and the authorization of volunteer fire 

 wardens under a comprehensive fire code ; Washington has raised 

 its annual appropriation from $23,000 to $38,000; while Oregon 

 provided $30,000 a year for a State Forester and a working pro- 

 tective organization. Idaho made no change in the forest laws, 

 but maintained the Fallon law, which is considered effective in 

 its provisions for co-operation between the State and individual 

 owners on an equal cost basis. In Minnesota a new forestry law 

 has been passed which embodies many new features and is 

 acknowledged to be the best law of the kind in any of the States. 

 In the East, Pennsylvania has before the Legislature a bill pro- 

 viding a better protection for the State Reserves; and in New 

 Jersey, the Forest Commission is prepared to extend and reorgan- 

 ize the forest fire service by the appointment of four division 

 fire wardens and by various other changes in the laws and organ- 

 ization. 



It is announced that Mr. F. A. Elliott has been appointed State 

 Forester of Oregon, with headquarters at Salem. Mr. Elliott, 

 prior to his appointment, was assistant superintendent of the log- 

 ging department of the Charles K. Spaulding Logging Company. 

 His thorough knowledge of the forest conditions in Oregon and 

 his wide acquaintance with the manufacturing and timber-owning 

 individuals arid organizations should insure close co-operation and 

 effective action in forest protection. Technical forestry and con- 

 servative lumbering, beyond mere fundamentals, cannot be ex- 

 pected in Oregon at the present time, but if reasonable control of 

 forest fires can be achieved, the way will be paved for the future 

 reforestation of burns and the cutting of second crops. 



The annual meeting of the Western Forestry and Conservation 

 Association was held in Spokane, April 3. This association is the 



