2o8 FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION April: 



New Hampshire. A joint resolution The members of the board are to get a 



was passed by the New Hampshire salary of $100 a year and mileage to the 



Legislature, and signed by the gov- meetings. Present members are to 



ernor, which provides for a forest exam- serve out their four years' term. The 



ination of the White Mountain region, secretary received an increase in salary 



The Forest Commission, according to from $1,200 to $i, 800 a year, 



the terms of this resolution, are author- The reservation law authorizes the 



ized to procure, upon terms to be ap- State Board of Forestry to purchase 



proved by the governor and council, 2,000 acres of land for a state forest 



the general examination of the forest reservation and state nurseries. The 



lands of the White Mountain region, land may be located in any county or 



It also provides that this examination counties and shall not exceed in cost $8 



shall .be made by the Bureau of For- an acre. Money derived from the sale 



estry, whose report shall be made before of timber, mining, or in any other way 



the next session of the general court, is to be paid into the state treasury. 



The sum of $5,000 is appropriated for The sum of $1.50 an acre annually is- 



the work. appropriated for maintenance. 



Another joint resolution passed by California. An act recently passed 

 the New Hampshire Legislature favors by the legislature of California and 

 the establishment of a national forest signed by the governor appropriates 

 reserve in the White Mountain region. $65,000 for cooperation with the Federal 

 This resolution was brought about by Government in several lines of work, 

 the fact that certain permanent and Of this amount, $15,000 is to be spent 

 summer residents of the state had taken at the direction of the chief of the Bureau 

 steps during the past winter to memo- of Forestry for the purpose of studying 

 rialize Congress for the establishment of the forest resources of the state, with a 

 such a reserve in the White Mountains, view to the preparation of a proper forest 

 The resolution gives the United States policy. The appropriation for this pur- 

 Government permission to acquire by pose was made with the understanding 

 purchase, gift, or condemnation such that a like amount would be spent by 

 lands in the state as in the opinion of the Federal Government, 

 the Federal Government may be needed Owing to the severe forest fires of last 

 for the establishment of a national for- September, in which about $12,000,000- 

 est reserve in the White Mountains. worth of timber and other property was 



A third joint resolution provided for destroyed in the states of Oregon and 



a nurserj^ for the growth and distribu- Washington, the question of establish - 



tion of forest seedling trees within the ing a patrol system has been widely dis- 



state at cost. This passed the House cussed there. As a result, the legisla- 



but failed in the Senate. tures of both states have considered bills 



Indiana. A bill to create a state for- looking to the suppression of forest fires, 

 est reservation was passed by the leg- Washington. A very comprehensive 

 islature just adjourned and has been fire law has just been passed by both 

 signed by the governor. Another bill houses, and will, it is understood, be 

 amends two sections of the old forest signed by the governor. It provides : 

 law, one amendment being that whereas i . That the State Land Commissioner 

 the old law required that one member shall be ex officio forest fire warden. 

 of the State Board of Forestry be taken 2. That the county commissioners of 

 "from the woodworkers of the state, the various counties shall be ex officio' 

 who is a mechanic actively employed at deputy forest fire wardens, 

 his trade," the new law requires that 3. That all road supervisors or corn- 

 one member be ' ' from the membership missioners shall be ex officio forest pa- 

 of the Hardwood Lumber Dealers' Asso- trolmen in their respective road districts, 

 ciation of Indiana," and the member 4. That all state land cruisers shall 

 who before was taken from the State be ex officio forest patrolmen at large. 

 Forest Association is hereafter to be The law further provides that timber 



one actively engaged in farming." cruisers and others in the employ of 



