CURRENT LITERATURE. 



Third Annual Report of the State Forester to the Governor, 

 Slate of Oregon. Salem, Ore. 1913. Pp. 46. 



This third report of the State Forester is devoted to a record 

 of the fire losses and to a statement of the fire protection work 

 of the State and private agencies. 



Forty-six per cent, of the land area, or twenty-eight million 

 acres, requires protection from fire. Sixteen million acres are 

 protected by the United States Forest Service, while twelve mil- 

 lion acres are patrolled on the co-operative basis by the state and 

 private owners'. 



The average area burned over per fire on private lands has been 

 reduced from 137 acres in 191 1 to 30 acres in 1913. Nearly 

 27,(X)0 acres of slashings were burned in accordance with the 

 Oregon slash burning law. 



In 1913 a law was passed requiring every owner of timber land 

 to provide a sufficient fire patrol for his land. This law has re- 

 sulted in doubling the membership of existing fire patrol associa- 

 tions and in forming several new associations. 



Half the report is taken up with detailed statements of the work 

 of the sixteen fire patrol associations. The cost of protection in 

 these associations ranged from one-half cent to three cents per 

 acre. R. C. H. 



Annual Report of the Potlatch Timber Protection Association 

 for ipij. Potlatch, Idaho. Pp. 16. 



This contains the annual reports of the President, Chief Fire 

 Warden, and Treasurer of the Association. 



Eight members, paying assessments on 309,887 acres, (two and 

 one-fourth cents per acre) are enrolled, but 594,000 acres lie 

 within the boundaries of the Potlatch Timber Protective Asso- 

 ciation and are regularly patrolled. The total acreage burned 

 over in the season of 1913 was less than 70 acres, with injury to 

 13,000 feet of timber, which was promptly cut and used. The 



