Secondly, the owner must be protected from forest 

 fires due to the negligence of his neighbor, either in 

 leaving dangerous accumulations of slash or in fail- 

 ing to guard his land during dangerous seasons. He 

 must be protected from the fire hazard created by 

 railroads, campers or pedestrians, incendiarism, high- 

 way traffic, or any other of the thousand and one 

 possible sources of danger. And third, he must in 

 return for these specific measures of public assist- 

 ance conform with equitable requirements as to cut- 

 ting, slash disposal, and fire protection on his o\vii 

 land designed to keep it in timber growth. All three 

 of these factors go together and must be administered 

 together. 



The power of taxation and the police powers upon 

 which control of the forest fire hazard rests are 

 definitely vested in the several States. It is hard for 

 me to conceive of these powers being acquired or 

 taken over by the Federal government. Nor can I 

 conceive of an effective scheme of reforestation under 

 which these three integral and mutually essential 

 functions of taxation, fire protection, and regulation, 

 are divided. The owner should not obtain the bene- 

 fit of special forms of taxing timberland, designed 

 to encourage reforestation, unless certain regulatory 

 requirements are met. Fire protection and forest cul- 

 ture are so inextricably mingled as usually to be 

 simply part and parcel of the same thing. In some 

 sections, control, of grazing is another fundamental 

 of reforestation, leading us again into the field of 

 local police authority. 



In plain terms, I can not conceive of an effective 



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