STATE WORK 



Kentucky 



A bill has been introduced in the legisla- 

 ture the provisions of which are thus sum- 

 marized by the Louisville Courier-Journal: 



"A board of forestry shall consist of the 

 governor, the director of the Kentucky Ex- 

 periment Station at Lexington as ex-officio 

 members ; the state forester, a trained man 

 appointed by the governor, with the advice 

 of the senate, and four members similarly 

 appointed. 



"The forestry board shall have the care 

 and control of state reserves hereafter to be 

 acquired, shall ascertain the best methods of 

 reforesting cut-over lands, foresting waste 

 lands, preventing destruction of forests by 

 fire, administering forests upon scientific 

 principles, instructing private owners in prac- 

 tical forestry, and conserving timber on the 

 watersheds of streams. 



"The board shall be allowed to purchase 

 reserves at a price not above $5 an acre, 

 to receive gifts of land and money for 

 forestry purposes and as a breeding place 

 for game. 



"The board shall secure and publish in 

 popular form information as to the best 

 methods as to conserving the forest and 

 water supply. 



"The state forester shall, when directed, 

 cooperate with counties, corporations, munici 

 palities, and individuals in conservation work. 



"The salary of the state forester is fixed 

 at a maximum of $2,000 a year and reason- 

 able traveling expenses." 



Louisiana 



John H. Foster, forest assistant of the 

 United States Forest Service, is making an 

 examination, with Register Grace, of the 

 state land office, of the Louisiana forests, for 

 the purpose of preparing a report to the gen- 

 eral assembly looking to their maintenance. 

 Mr. Grace has collected much data through 

 the assessors, and a thorough personal sur- 

 sey of the state will also be made. Con- 

 siderable attention is to be given to the 

 denuded pine lands. 



At its annual meeting in January the 

 Louisiana Forestry Association elected the 

 following officers : President, Henry F. 

 Harcltner of Urania ; vice-presidents, W. O. 

 Hart of New Orleans, F. A. Frost of Shreve- 

 port, T. C. Wingate of Leesville ; secretary, 

 Mrs. A. B. Avery of Shreveport ; treasurer, 

 Robert Roberts, jr., of Minder ; councillors 



at large, Mrs. J. D. Wilkinson, Shreveport ; 

 Harry P. Gamble, Winnfield; M. O. Lambly, 

 Jennings; executive council, Charles f. John- 

 ston, New Orleans, first congressional dis- 

 trict; Grace King, New Orleans, second con- 

 gressional district; Professor Alleman. Baton 

 Rouge, third congressional district ; Thomas 

 J. Davis, Leesville, fourth congressional dis- 

 trict ; J. W. Elder, Farmerville, fifth con- 

 gressional district ; Fred J. Grace, Baton 

 Rouge, sixth congressional district; H. H. 

 White, Alexandria, seventh congressional 

 district. 



The following resolution was adopted : 

 "Be i* resolved by the Louisiana Forestry 

 Association, in regular meeting assembled, 

 that the general assembly of the state of 

 Louisiana is hereby urged and requested to 

 appropriate sufficient funds to maintain the 

 chair of forestry at the Louisiana State Uni- 

 versity created by an act of the general 

 assembly." 



Maryland 



The report of F. W. Besley, state forester 

 of Maryland, to the governor, states that in 

 the last three years the work of making a 

 forest survey of the state has been completed 

 in eighteen of the twenty-three counties. 



I'orest conditions in eight counties Som- 

 erset, Dorchester, Talhot, Caroline, Anne 

 Arundel, Baltimore, Howard, and Mont- 

 gomery have been carefully studied, re- 

 sulting in detailed forest maps showing loca- 

 tion of all woodlands, character and condi- 

 tions of growth, stand and value of timber, 

 reliable data as to uses of timber and ob- 

 servations in bettering the methods of forest 

 management. 



The forest-warden system inaugurated 

 three years ago has been improved and made 

 more effective for the suppression of forest 

 fires. During the last year thirty of the 

 eighty-three fires reported were extinguished 

 by the forest wardens at a total cost of $367. 

 The present forest protection system, as im- 

 perfect as it is with unpaid wardens, has ac 

 complished an immense amount of good in 

 making people more careful about fires and 

 in suppressing before much damage is done 

 those that occur. 



"The rapid exhaustion of local timber re- 

 sources," says Mr. Besley, "is a serious 

 question. Other states are much in the same 

 predicament. We must eventually depend on 

 our own forests for most of our timber sup- 

 ply. Under present conditions, through 

 wasteful and injudicious methods of cutting 



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