AMERICAN FORESTRY 



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TENNESSEE 



RECOGNIZING that the forestry situa- 

 tion in Tennessee is serious and that 

 the responsibility for protection of her for- 

 ests is grave, a strong and earnest effort 

 is being put forth by the forestry interests 

 of the State to meet it. J. M. Overton, 

 President of the Tennessee Forestry Asso- 

 ciation, reports that a bill has been intro- 

 duced in the present Legislature seeking 

 to establish a separate forestry bureau 

 under a State Forestry Commission This 

 commission will be composed of the presi- 

 dents of the three largest educational insti- 

 tutions in the State and the State Com- 

 missioner of Agriculture and the State 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction. The 

 bill asks for an appropriation of $17,200. 

 If the full appropriation asked is not 

 granted, the State should be given at least 

 $10,000 a year for co-operation with the 

 Federal Government in the matter of fire 

 protection and reclamation of her waste 

 lands. Though the policy of economy 

 adopted by the Legislature is thoroughly 

 well understood. This is a matter of vital 

 interest to Tennessee and will undoubtedly 

 receive the cordial support and indorse- 

 ment needed by the citizens of the State 

 to pass the necessary legislation. The 

 newspapers are taking a great interest In 

 the movement and carry convincing pub- 

 licity regularly. 



CENTRAL STATES FORESTRY 

 CONFERENCE 



'T'HAT recreational return is a forest 

 product and that forestry in the states 

 should be so interpreted as to provide 

 camping facilities, hunting, fishing and 

 touring as well as a timber growth was 

 the declaration of the Central States For- 

 estry Conference at its first session at 

 which the representatives of eight states 

 met to plan the formation of an organiza- 

 tion to secure essentially uniform laws for 

 forestry in Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, 

 Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana 

 and Ohio. The resolutions passed at this 

 conference, at which the National Forestry 

 Program Committee participated by send- 

 ing some of its members to speak for the 

 Snell bill, for a national forestry program, 

 as well as to aid in the securing of state 

 laws, were specific in declaring that recre- 

 ational use of the forest must be kept con- 

 stantly in mind. State Forester R. B. Mil- 

 ler, of Illinois, told how the passage of 

 the Snell bill would aid Illinois and other 

 states in solving their forest problems, 

 particularly in giving federal aid for the 

 prevention of forest fires. 



The conference also adopted resolutions 

 declaring for state recreation grounds for 

 hunting, fishing, camping or other out-of- 

 door sports, for a system of state parks 

 in Illinois, and for a system of game ref- 

 uges and resting places for waterfowl, and 



for public shooting grounds, following the 

 lines as far as possible of the Pennsyl- 

 vania system. 



The resolutions also asked that wild 

 life conservation be taught in the public 

 schools. ' 



FIRE LOSSES IN THE UNITED 

 STATES 

 Tr/OREST fires, sweeping over 56,488,307 

 acres of land in 45 states, caused 

 damage amounting to $85,715,747 during 

 the five years 1916 to 1920, inclusive, ac- 

 cording to information just made public 

 by the Forest Service of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture. A total of 

 160,318 forest fires occurred during this pe- 

 riod. Minnesota was the chief sufferer, 

 its loss being $30,895,868. 



The bulletin containing this information 

 is a special edition of Safeguarding 

 America Against Fire, issued for the Fed- 

 eral and State forest services by the Na- 

 tional Board of Fire Underwriters. It pre- 

 sents the latest survey of the country's 

 forest fire situation, and points out that 

 the major portion of the damage to Amer- 

 ica's forest resources, due to human agen- 

 cies, is preventable. Railroads caused the 

 largest number of all fires cnargeable to 

 such agencies. 



The bulletin also presents reports from 

 the Forest Service on fires in the National 

 Forest and from State forestry officials 

 covering conditions in 20 states. 



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