STATE NEWS 



61 



INDIANA 



1~\ESPITE the inroads which have been 

 made on the timber in Ohio, Indiana, 

 Illinois, each of these three states still has 

 a large area about 3,000,000 acres each 

 in farm woodlands, according to United 

 States Forest Service figures. This rep- 

 resents between 10 and 15 per cent of the 

 total farm area. Lumber production in 

 these states has declined greatly in the 

 last twenty years. In 1899 Indiana and 

 Ohio each produced about a billion board 

 feet of lumber; in 1918 each produced one- 

 fourth of a billion board feet. In 1899 

 Illinois produced 375,000,000 board feet; 

 in 1918 the output had declined to 50,000- 

 000 board feet. 



NEW YORK 



"FACED by the fact that New York State 

 is cutting from three to five times more 

 timber than is grown there each year, and 

 that the vital manufacturing establish- 

 ments which depend upon unfailing sup- 

 plies of forest products are migrating to 

 other fields, the Conservation Commission 

 has just made public a rational forest 

 policy for the State, the adoption of which 

 is urged in order to offset the imminent 

 menace of a wood shortage. The policy, 

 which is contained in a letter mailed by 

 Conservation Commissioner George D. 

 Pratt to the Governor and members of the 

 Legislature for their consideration be- 

 tween now and the rush of the legislative 

 session, constitutes a unified plan to meet 

 the necessity for a proper protection and 

 development of the forest lands of the 

 State, as well as to replenish the fast wan- 

 ing supply. It is the first broad-guage 

 response to the warning made by Colonel 

 Henry S. Graves, Chief of the United 

 States Forest Service, based upon a tim- 

 ber survey to meet war needs, that timber 

 in the east is rapidly approaching an end, 

 and that the remedy for the situation is 

 one of the most fundamentally important 

 questions with which we have to deal to- 

 day. 



The measures now suggested as a solu- 

 tion of the problem in New York State 

 have, according to Commissioner Pratt, 

 already in their main features been thor- 

 oughly developed and tested by the Con- 

 servation Commission in the two greatest 

 forested regions of the State. 



Among the first steps advocated is the 

 division of the Stale into ten forestry dis- 

 tricts, each under the supervision of an 

 experienced forester. He would act under 

 the direction of the Division of Lands and 

 Forests of the Conservation Commission 

 in the same way that district rangers in 

 the Forest Preserve counties now adminis- 



ter their forest areas. In matters relat- 

 ing to forestry, such a man would occupy 

 a place similar to that occupied in agri- 

 culture by the Farm Bureau agents, whose 

 work has been so proved a success. 



"A full summary of the benefits," the 

 letter says in conclusion, "that will accrue 

 to New York State upon the adoption of 

 a broad plan for forest development will 

 reach into practically every phase of life 

 of the people. Hardly an industry can be 

 named, which is not in one way or another 

 dependent upon supplies of wood. With 

 the development of our water resources, the 

 need for wood supplies will be even great- 

 er. A decrease in the production of wood 

 products and a relocation of mills else- 

 where will all tend to increase the cost of 

 products to the consumer. We must ac- 

 cordingly maintain and develop our forests, 

 and thus protect our industries, and em- 

 ploy our labor. We must insure perman- 

 ency in industry, and not allow parts of 

 the Empire State to become deserted vil- 

 lages. This is a social and economic 

 problem, which a broad plan of forest de- 

 velopment can do much to solve. The next 

 session of Congress will see bills intro- 

 duced to stimulate this work throughout 

 the entire. country, and to co-operate with 

 those states that take constructive action. 

 By the initiation of the work here out- 

 lined, New York will benefit by the Fed- 

 eral co-operation under laws already pass- 

 ed, and will place herself in the vanguard 

 of those commonwealths that realize the 

 exhaustibility of forest resources and the 

 necessity for conservation and replace- 

 ment." 



OREGON 



'THE request by the Air Patrol Commit- 

 tee, of the Western Forestry and Con- 

 servation Association that air patrol of fo- 

 ested areas be established for all North- 

 western states the 1920 season is epochal 

 in forest protection endeavor. For the past 

 two months the committee of which C. S. 

 Chapman, Forester for the Association, is 

 chairman, and which is composed of repre- 

 sentatives of Federal, State and private 

 interests in all states from Montana to 

 California, has been working with local 

 air service officials in the planning of in- 

 tensive patrol for the areas in question. 

 The War Department has now been asked 

 to furnish for the 1920 season 5 complete 

 observation squadrons of 18 planes each, 

 or 90 planes for this work, with the re- 

 quired number of pilots and observers. 



It is planned to have planes equipped 

 with wireless so that location of fires 

 observed may be immediately sent to re- 

 receiving stations which the Signal Corps 



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