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1903. Washington made land commissioner ex-officio State fire warden. County 



commissioners to constitute boards of deputy fire wardens and appoint 

 local wardens as necessary. Other wardens and patrolmen included all 

 State land cruisers as patrolmen at large. County warden boards in 

 timber counties to establish closed seasons necessitating burning permits. 

 Costs of patrol and fire fighting to fall on counties. Deputy wardens 

 required to patrol their districts, post warnings, and enforce the law. 



1904. Louisiana created a department of forestry under the commissioner of the 



State land office as ex-officio commissioner of forestry, with additional 

 salary, and four unsalaried members. Department to make inquiries, 

 report on them, and recommend legislation. All State activities for 

 forest preservation placed under control of commissioner, with power to 

 appoint a chief fire warden. An officer in each jury ward of the State 

 required to act as local fire warden under direction of chief fire warden, 



with duty of preventing and suppressing forest fires. 

 Massachusetts authorized the creation of 



)f the office of State forester, ap- 

 pointee required to have a technical education, who was to establish and 

 maintain a forest-tree nursery at the Massachusetts Agricultural College. 



Vermont required that the governor designate one member of the board of 

 agriculture as forestry commissioner, with special duties in the adminis- 

 tration of the provisions of the act and the protection of forests from fire. 

 1905. California created a board of forestry consisting of the governor, secretary 

 of state, attorney general, and State forester; the latter was charged 

 with the administration of the State parks, the fire protective work 

 throughout the State, and general forest publicity work. The State 

 forester to establish districts and appoint citizens as voluntary fire 

 wardens, who might be paid by counties or private persons or corpora- 

 tions. At dangerous periods the forester might maintain a patrol at the 

 expense of a county. Counties were required to clear inflammable 

 material from roads at the request of the State forester. 



Connecticut reorganized the forest fire protection system of the State, 

 made the State forester ex officio State forest fire warden, and vested in 

 him the authority, with the cooperation of town selectmen, to select 

 district fire wardens. Each town was required to pay one half the cost 

 of fire fighting within its boundaries, and the county and State one 

 fourth each. 



Idaho in an act regarding the sale of timber from State lands and the pre- 

 vention of forest fires charged the State board of land commissioners 

 with the duty of seeing that certain restrictions were complied with, and 

 that brush was properly cared for when timber was cut and sold. 



Illinois authorized the organization of forest preserve districts, each 

 comprising a portion or all of one or more counties, and gave the board 

 of commissioners of such incorporated district very extensive powers of 

 taxation and general administration. Displaced by law of June 16, 

 1909, which was declared unconstitutional December 21, 1911. 



Indiana law regarding the burning of the woods required each township 

 road supervisor to employ the assistance necessary to extinguish any 

 fire within his district, the wages of the persons thus employed to be paid 

 from the regular township funds. 



New Jersey established a State board of forest park reservation commis- 

 sioners consisting of five members; given control of State forest reserves, 

 with authority to adopt measures of encouragement to the practice of 

 forestry by private owners. 



North Carolina enacted a new and more comprehensive law authorizing 

 the State geologist to employ such experts and assistants as should be 

 deemed necessary by himself and a geological board; a State forester 

 was employed. 



Oregon made provision for the appointment of a forest fire ranger in each 

 county of the State, to be paid by the property owners requesting such 

 appointment. Law repealed in 1907. 



Tennessee created a department of game, fish, and forestry. Nonsalaried 

 State warden appointed by the governor, who might employ a secretary, 

 without expense to the State, said secretary appointing county wardens 

 and special wardens, who were given the rights, powers, and authority 

 of county sheriffs as to the enforcement of the State laws for the protec- 

 tion of the game, birds, fish, and forests of the State. 



