An amendment permitting 1 the purchase by the "Forestry 

 Board of any portion of a township not suited to agriculture, 

 to be used for forest purposes. The present law limits tin 

 purchase to one-eighth of any one township. 



An act authorizing the Forestry Board to pay not more than 

 $3.50 per acre for non-agricultural lands (exclusive of the tim- 

 ber thereon) desired for state forests, except in the case of 

 state school or other state lands, when the appraised value 

 may be paid. When desirable to purchase timber it may be 

 paid for at the market price. 



On account of the difficulty of keeping track of the different 

 funds, it is desirable that $9,302.65, the balance of the emer- 

 gency appropriation of 1911 be turned into the regular contin- 

 gent fund of the Forest Service. This will greatly simplify 

 payments of fire fighting claims. 



Sec. 15, Chap. 125, Laws of 1911, should be amended so as to 

 provide that w.hen slashings are left unburned contrary to the 

 instructions of the State's Forester, his deputy, or a District 

 Ranger, the District Ranger or a patrolman working under 

 him may go upon the premises with such force of men as may 

 be necessary, and burn such branches, slashings, debris, etc., 

 and the expense thereof shall be a lien upon the land. 



There should be an annual appropriation of $100,000, lo be 

 expended by the Forestry Board in obtaining lands and tim- 

 ber for state forests. 



The appropriation for the maintenance and support of Itasca 

 Park should be increased from $6,000 to $10,000 per year. 



The present law regarding Itasca Park should be revised: 

 (a) to correct the terms aplied to different features about 

 which there is at present time some confusion; (b) to permit 

 the leasing of the hotel property to the highest responsible 

 and satisfactory bidder. 



The Forestry Board should have authority to extend the 

 boundary of Itasca Park by purchase, it being understood that 

 lands added to the park from this date on shall be state forest 

 land, to be handled as a state forest, rather than as a park 

 in the strict sense of the word. 



The regular Forest Service appropriation should be increased 

 to $150,000 per year, because the present appropriation of 

 $75,000 permits of the maintenance of little more than a skele- 

 ton force of rangers and patrolmen. 



Proposed constitutional amendment authorizing a commis- 

 sion to set apart school and other public lands which are not 

 suited to agriculture. 



A law authorizing the leasing of state lands for purposes of 

 summer hotels, cottages, hunting and fishing lodges, water 

 power sites, etc., for a reasonable term of years, depending 

 upon the purpose for which the land is desired. 



The present "tree bounty" law should be modified so as to 

 permit the use of forty per cent of the fund for educational 

 and experimental work in forestry in portions of the state 

 contemplated by the original tree bounty law. This fund 

 should be administered by the State Forestry Board. 



Cities and villages should have authority to levy a five-mill 

 tax per annum on the assessed valuation of the city or village 

 property, to create a fund with which to purchase and main- 

 tain municipal forests. They should also be authorized to 

 condemn for this purpose. Lands for purchase should first 

 be approved by the State Forester. 



