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Other Publicly-owned Forest Area. 6492 acres in State Parks; Forests in 

 Indian reservations, 35,000 acres; Forests in National Parks, 440,750 acres. 



Average Annual Lumber Production. 1,700,000,000 board feet. 



Average Annual Forest Consumption. Unavailable. 



Last Annual Appropriation for Forestry. $57,314. ($30,300 set aside for 

 State Forests in addition.) 



Forest Fire Laws. Responsibility of State for protection of forest and brush 

 lands covers about 15,500,000 acres. Appropriations adequate to protect 

 about one-half. State has about 20 rangers. Compulsory patrol law affect- 

 ing pine regions requires protection by private owners. Redwood owners 

 have own protection organizations. State, Federal Government and cooper- 

 ating agencies spent $68,000 in 1923 for protection. State endeavoring to 

 protect slash on privately owned land in pine region, but considerable burn- 

 ing going on for lack of law to prohibit it. Slash burned in redwood 

 region, being apparently the best method. Protection costs vary from i l /t 

 to 2 l / 2 cents per acre. 



Forest Taxation Laws. No special taxation laws. Forest land classification 

 bill, providing a tax on land only until maturity of timber, passed at 1923 

 session of Legislature but vetoed by Governor on grounds of constitution- 

 ality. Taxation exemptions written into constitution. 



Nurseries. State nursery of 30 acres. Established primarily to raise trees 

 for highway planting, but there has been large demand for trees for plant- 

 ing by municipalities and on school grounds and other public activity. 

 Trees furnished for foresting city watersheds. Present output about 60,000 

 trees. Increased planting for windbreak and fuel purposes anticipated. 



Other Activities. State has done no reforestation work but several thousand 

 acres of brush-covered mountain slope in Los Angeles County have been 

 planted by the county forester. Several redwood operators have established 

 nurseries to raise stock for redwood planting. Movement on foot for 

 exchange of land with Federal Government so that State can obtain a 

 State Forest in exchange for scattered areas of State-owned lands. 



COLORADO 



Department of Forestry, Colorado Agricultural College. Created in 



1911. 

 W. J. Morrill, State Forester and Professor of Forestry, Fort 



Collins, Colorado. 



Area of State. 66,239,000 acres. 



Original Forested Area. 21,760,000 acres. 



Present Forest Area. 13,200,000 acres. 



Idle or Unproductive Forest Land. 5,800,000 acres. (Estimate.) 



Timber Stand. 23,400,000,000 board feet. 



State Forests. None organized; 125,000 acres of timber lands owned by State 



in scattered sections which may be exchanged in order to form State Forests. 

 National Forests within State. 16 wholly and two in part; total area 



14,748,943 acres. 



