VIRGINIA 171 



* Timber Stand. 10,800,000,000 board feet. 



State Forests. 29,950 acres. 



National Forests within State. None. 



Other Publicly-owned Forest Area. None. 



Average Annual Lumber Production. 164,500,000 board feet. 



Average Annual Consumption. Unavailable. 



Last Annual Appropriation for Forestry. $23,000. 



Forest Fire Laws. System of district wardens, patrol work, telephone lines 



and lookout towers. Cooperation with timberland owners associations and 



U. S. Forest Service. 



Forest Taxation Laws. Yield tax law with exemption of plantation. 

 Nurseries. Two nurseries at Sharon and Essex Junction. Total of about four 



million seedlings. 

 Other Activities. Carrying on reforestation of waste lands, advising farmers 



on woodlot management, carrying on forestry publicity. 



VIRGINIA 



Office of State Forester (Under Geological Commission). Created 



1914. 



Chapin Jones, State Forester, Charlottesville, Virginia. 

 Alfred B. Hastings, Assistant State Forester. 



Land Area of State. 25,767,680 acres. 



Original Forested Area. 24,960,000 acres. 



Present Forest Area. 13,800,000 acres. 



Idle or Unproductive Forest Land. 1,500,000 acres, including waste, brush, 

 abandoned fields and pasture not restocking. 



State Forests. 588 acres. 



National Forests within State. 332,106 acres. 



Other Publicly-owned Forest Area. 1500 acres. 



Average Annual Lumber Production (cut). Estimated in 1919 at 1,382,900,000 

 board feet, including firewood. 



Average Annual Consumption. Estimated in 1919 at 3,661,000,000 board feet, 

 including all uses. 



Last Annual Appropriation for Forestry. $18,000 for year ending February 

 29, 1924. 



Forest Fire Laws. The forest fire laws provide penitentiary sentence for 

 malicious setting of fire to woods, grass, etc. ; fines for negligence, for burn- 

 ing brush without precautions ; for failing to keep premises of steam mill in 

 woodland free from trash in vicinity of boiler or slab fire, for operating 

 engines, mills or boilers near forest or brush without efficient spark 

 arrester. Forest Wardens appointed under direction of State Forester for 

 enforcement of these laws and fighting fires. 



Forest Taxation Laws. There are no special forest taxation laws. Forests 

 are taxed as other real estate, although they are usually assessed sepa- 

 rately from the land on which they stand. 



* U. S. Forest Service estimate, 1915. 



