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the political administration of the provinces, jealous- 

 ies between imperial and provincial governments, 

 and fear of resistance and ill will of forest owners pre- 

 vented a strict and uniform application of the law. 

 Hence, from time to time, we find ministerial rescripts, 

 and special provincial legislation to secure a more 

 energetic enforcement of the law. 



At first, the reform had reference mainly to the Alp 

 districts, which had suffered the most, and, in Tyrol, 

 at least, an organization was created in 1856 which 

 was to manage the State forests, supervise the manage- 

 ment of corporation forests and exercise the forest 

 police. Not until the years 1871-74, however, was 

 a similar service extended to other portions of the 

 empire, but at the end of that period the entire empire 

 had been placed under the administration of a "forest 

 protective service." an organization quite distinct 

 from the State forest administration. 



In 1900, there were placed under this service nearly 

 two million acres of protective, and somewhat over 

 150,000 acres of ban forests, but some 5 to 6 million 

 acres of private or communal forest was under some 

 other restrictive policy. 



In 1888, this service consisted of 14 forest inspectors, 

 56 forest commissioners, 63 forest adjuncts and 80 

 assistants and forest guards; in addition 252 special 

 appointees and officers of the State forest adminis- 

 tration were doing duty in this service, so that alto- 

 gether nearly 500 persons were then employed in 

 carrying on the protective forest policy of the State. 

 In 1910, there were 388 technical attaches to the pro- 

 vincial authorities employed, and 124 on reboisement 



