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AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



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Messrs. Pinchot and Graves' publications 

 on the Adirondack Spruce, and stipulates, 

 briefly, that where the company contracts 

 for cutting, operations shall be carried 

 on so that a future supply of trees can be 

 counted on. The most notable clauses in 

 this contract demand that : 



All trees shall be sawed and not cut, 

 shall be sawed as close to the ground as 

 practicable, and in no case shall a stump 

 be left higher than the diameter of the 

 tree where sawed, plus six inches. 



That where there is three feet or more 

 of snow, each tree shall be shoveled out 

 before sawing. That trees smaller than 



inches in diameter at the stump 



shall not be sawed or hauled, except small 

 trees that may be cut in swamping, and 

 that these are to be hauled as small as five 

 inches at the top end, whatever length. 



That no Spruce or Pine shall be used 

 for bridges, roads, skids, slides or other 

 purposes where other timber can be had, 

 and that all merchantable timber used for 

 skids, slides or other purposes shall be 

 hauled and delivered. 



That all trees shall be run up into the 

 tops and well trimmed before being cut 

 off, and 



That the person contracting to do the 

 cutting shall carefully guard all fires 

 kindled by him or his employees so that 

 they shall not spread or cause injury, and 

 shall keep the Forest Commissioner's no- 

 tices in regard tofires posted conspicuously. 

 In other words the Great Northern 

 Paper Co. wishes to have what is forestry 

 of a rough sort practiced on its lands. A 

 man who knows the New England lumber 

 business intimately said recently that three- 

 fourths of the lumbermen of New Hamp- 

 shire were trying to do likewise. The 

 moral of this is that individual initiative 

 may go far toward effecting what the law 

 which has just failed of passage could 

 scarcely have accomplished. A wise and 

 well equipped forest commission might, 

 through such work as the Agricultural 

 Boards have been doing, produce a state of 

 things in New Hampshire in a compara- 

 tively few years such as no mere legislation 

 either now or later could hope to bring 

 about. 



A Forest The Pennsylvania Legis- 



Department in lature passed an Act last 

 Pennsylvania, month which raises the 

 Division of Forestry of 

 that State's Department of Agriculture to 

 the position of a Departmant of Forestry. 

 In addition to the new importance which 

 is thus given to the forest service of the 

 State, the efficiency and strength of its or- 

 ganization is much increased by the Act. 

 The department is to consist of a Com- 

 missioner of Forestry, and four others. 

 These shall also constitute the State For- 

 estry Reservation Commission. The Com- 

 missioner is to hold office for four years 

 and so are his fellow members of the 

 Reservation Commission; they are not all 

 to be appointed at the same time however, 

 and their terms of office so overlap that 

 the Board will always have two members 

 of two years' experience. The Reserva- 

 tion Commission is empowered to buy 

 lands for the forest preserve, to manage 

 them, to sell timber, and to make con- 

 tracts for the mining of any valuable min- 

 erals which may be found in them. The 

 Act further specifies that the Commis- 

 sioner of Forestry shall be the President 

 and executive officer of the Forestry Res- 

 ervation Commission, and also Superin- 

 tendent of the State Forestry Reserva- 

 tions, and shall have immediate control, 

 under the direction of the Commission, of 

 all forest lands belonging to the Common- 

 wealth. He is empowered to execute all 

 rules adopted by the Commission for the 

 enforcement of laws designed to protect 

 the forest from fire and depredation, and 

 is also empowered to employ detective 

 service and to make arrests. It is also 

 provided in this Act that the kindling of fire 

 on a forest reservation, except in accord- 

 ance with the rules and regulations of the 

 Commission, shall be a misdemeanor for 

 which the penalty is a fine of not less than 

 one hundred dollars, or more than five 

 hundred. Governor Stone has just ap- 

 pointed Dr. J. T. Rothrock as Commis- 

 sioner. No State has passed a more thor- 

 ough or broadly founded Art than this, 

 and none has a more conscientious or 

 more vigorous Commissioner. The Act 

 shows what a Commissioner ami State 



