Vacarc three years as aforesaid; any vacancy that 



may occur by death, resignation or other- 

 wise v shall bi; filled by the governor but for the unexpired 

 term orJy. (.. L,. ^905, p. 77.) 



Sec. 2. Said board shall have power to acquire a fee simple 

 . estate in any lands to be taken for the pur- 



lands!" 1 poses of forest park reservations, as in this 



act hereafter directed, or any easement or 

 profit a prendre that said board in its discretion may deem 

 best; the said acquisition may be accomplished either by 

 deed, gift or devise, or, if necessary, by condemnation pro- 

 ceedings, to be instituted by and in the name of said board, 

 under and pursuant to an act entitled "An act to regulate 

 the ascertainment and payment of compensation for prop- 

 erty condemned or taken for public use (Revision of 

 1900)," being chapter fifty-three, laws of one thousand nine 

 hundred, with any amendments thereof or supplemental 

 thereto; said board shall have power to hold said lands 

 and any estate, easement or profit a prendre therein for the 

 benefit of the people of the state of New Jersey; and said 

 lands so held by said board shall not be sold, aliened or 

 encumbered in any way, except pursuant to an act of the 

 legislature. (P. L. 1905, p. 78.) 

 Sec. 3. The care, management and preservation of the forest 



reserves, and the forests thereon, as well 

 Preservation and as future growths thereon, and all moneys 

 management. appropriated in that behalf, or collected 



therefrom in any way, and all personal 

 property acquired to carry out the purposes of this act, are 

 hereby confided to and vested in said board, as the same 

 may be herein or in subsequent acts defined and required ; 



the board shall observe, keep in view, and, 

 General powers, so far as it can, put in operation the best 



method to reforest cut-over and denuded 

 lands, to forest waste and other lands, to prevent injury of 

 forests by fire, the administering and care of forests on 

 forestry principles, the encouragement of private owners in 

 preserving and growing timber for commercial and manu- 

 facturing purposes, and the general conservation of forests 

 tracts around the headwaters and on the water-sheds of all 



the water courses of the State, said board 



shall make reports of its work^ conclusions 

 and recommendations to each session of the legislature, and 

 from time to time publish, in a popular manner, and print 

 for popular distribution, in bulletin or other form, such of 



