1 82 North American Forests and Forestry 



worth while to devote some separate chapters to 

 forest legislation. In those chapters we will treat, in 

 addition to a number of minor subjects, the ques- 

 tions of fire protection and taxation of forests. 

 These two questions, the reader remembers, afford 

 a solution to the problem why the lumbermen and 

 other owners of cut-over timber-lands do not reforest 

 their holdings ; and we will see that the way to deal 

 with these questions is by proper legislation. 



