770 A NATIONAL PLAN FOR AMERICAN FORESTRY 



1905. Washington created a State board of forest commissioners and provided 



for the appointment of a State fire warden and forester who should have 

 charge of all fire protection work. The law included exceptionally 

 detailed regulations as to fire patrol and control. 



Wisconsin repealed much of the 1903 law and created a board of forestry, 

 authorized to appoint a technically trained man as State forester, who 

 would have supervision of all forest reserves and serve as State fire 

 warden, with authority to appoint and remove one or more fire wardens 

 in every town where he considered such appointment necessary. 



1906. Iowa provided for an exemption of forest areas from taxation, and that 



the secretary of the State horticultural society act as State forestry 

 commissioner, without additional salary, in promoting the objects of 

 the law and in obtaining general reports upon forestry from nonsalaried 

 county deputies, whom he was authorized to appoint. 



Kentucky created a State board of agriculture, forestry, and immigration, 

 consisting of nine members, and authorized a small sum to be expended 

 either directly or through the United States Forest Service in advancing 

 the forest interests of the State. Repealed in 1912. 



Maryland established a State board of forestry of 7 members, consisting 

 of the governor, 2 other State officials, 2 educators, a practical lumber- 

 man, and a citizen interested in forestry; to employ a technically trained 

 State forester who should have charge of all forestry interests in the 

 State, and head a State system of forest fire protection with the cost of 

 fire fighting to be borne by the counties. Board empowered to accept 

 gifts of land to the State for forestry purposes, and to purchase lands, 

 with limitation as to price. 



New Jersey repealed previous forest-fire laws and authorized the State 

 forest park reservation commission to appoint a State fire warden, who 

 was given general supervision of all forest fire protection, and to require 

 the appointment of town fire wardens with appointment by the com- 

 missioner if the town failed to act. The entire cost of fire control on 

 State reservations and one-half of that on other lands of any town was 

 made payable by the State. 



Ohio established a department of forestry at the State agricultural experi- 

 ment station and abolished the old State forestry bureau. Cooperation 

 with the United States was authorized, the State expenditure not to 

 exceed the Federal. 



Rhode Island authorized the appointment of a commissioner of forestry. 



Vermont appropriated money for the establishment and maintenance of a 

 forestry nursery. 



1907. Alabama established an unsalaried commission of forestry comprising the 



governor, three other State officials, a member of the Federal Forest 

 Service, a resident professor of forestry, and a practical lumberman, to 

 gather and publish information as to the forest interests of the State 

 and to recommend legislation. An optional system of county forest 

 wardens to control forest fires was provided for. 



Idaho. The law of 1905 was superseded by one which required the State 

 board of land commissioners to divide the State into fire districts and 

 appoint wardens upon the request of timber owners. 



Kansas provided for the appointment of two forestry commissioners to 

 reside at and have exclusive charge of the two State forestry experiment 

 stations at Dodge City and Ogallah, each charged with the duty of 

 disseminating knowledge about trees. 



Massachusetts forest protection act required that the persons appointed 

 as town and city forest wardens be approved by and make reports to the 

 State forester, and authorized the payment from State funds for the 

 services rendered by such wardens under the direction of the forester. 



Michigan abolished the office of chief fire warden; duties devolved upon 

 newly designated official, State game, fish, and forestry warden. 



Oregon created an unsalaried State board of forestry, with seven members; 

 authorized to appoint fire wardens, who were to have the powers of 

 peace officers as to arrests. The board was given no administrative 

 duties other than those connected with forest fire protection, and a 

 very limited annual appropriation. 



Pennsylvania enacted very strict provisions against the setting of fires on 

 forest land, and appropriated $500,000 for the purchase of State forest 

 reserves. 



