FOREST RESERVE LAW. • 187 



MINNESOTA FOREST RESERVE LAW. 



(ENACTED 1899.) 



AN ACT 



TO ENCOURAGE THE GROWING AND PRESERVATION OF FORESTS, ANI> 

 TO CREATE FOREST BOARDS AND FOREST RESERVES, AND TO 

 APPROPRIATE MONEY THEREFOR. 



Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota: 



Section 1. There is hereby designated forest reserves for the 

 state, to be known and designated in all public documents as the 

 "Forest Reserves," to be managed and controlled as herein provided, 

 which shall consist of all such tracts and parcels of land as shall be 

 set apart from any state lands, by the legislature, for forestry pur- 

 poses; or which shall be deeded, devised, or granted to the state for 

 forestry purposes, under the terms of this or any subsequent act, 

 by any person or persons; or granted to this state by the United 

 States government for forestry purposes, where such grants from 

 the United States government have been accepted by the legislature 

 of this state; or given or devised outright, for forestry purposes, to 

 the state, by any person or persons. 



Sec. 2. There is hereby created a forestry board for the state, to 

 be known and designated in all public documents as the "Minnesota 

 State Forestry Board," which shall consist of nine (9) members, to 

 be designated or chosen as follows, to-wit: 



1st. The person who by law is for the time the chief fire warden 

 of the State shall be ex-officio a member thereof. 



2d. The person for the time occupying the chair of horticulture 

 in the agricultural department of the University of Minnesota shall 

 be ex-officio a member thereof. 



3d. Three (3) persons, citizens of the state, shall be recommended 

 for appointment by the regents of the university in January, or as 

 soon thereafter as possible, of every other odd-numbered year, com- 

 mencing in eighteen hundred and ninety-nine (1899), for a term of 

 four (4) years each, one of whom shall be selected on account of his 

 interest in and knowledge of the planting, cultivation and preserva 

 tion of forest trees and groves, in the prairie regions of the state- 

 one of whom shall be selected on account of his interest in and 

 knowledge of the best methods for the preservation of the natural for- 

 ests of the state, and of reforesting denuded lands; and one of whom 

 shall be selected on account of his interest in and knowledge of the 

 best methods of protecting the sources of supply of the several 

 river systems of the state. 



4:th. Four (4) citizens of the state shall be recommended for ap- 

 pointment as members of said board as follows, viz.: One by each 

 of the following named associations or bodies, for a term of two (2) 

 years each, in January, or as soon thereafter as possible, of each 

 odd-numbered year, as follows, to-wit: The Minnesota State 

 Forestry Association, the Board of Managers of the Minnesota 

 State Agricultural Society, the Minnesota Horticultural Society and 

 the State Fish and Game Commission. 



