FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



June 



ure, has been elected to a professorship 

 in the Yale Forest School, and while he 

 will continue his work and his residence 

 in Washington, he will, by special ar- 

 rangement, deliver a course of lectures 

 at Yale during the coming collegiate 

 year. 



Professor William H. Brewer has re- 

 signed the professorship of agriculture 

 at Yale and has been appointed pro- 

 fessor emeritus. He has always taken 

 a considerable and active interest in for- 

 estry, and was the author of the article 

 on the ' ' Relation of Forestry to the 

 Public Health ' ' which appeared in the 

 January, 1903, issue of FORESTRY AND 

 IRRIGATION. 



Recent 

 State Forest 

 Legislation. 



Since the publication in 

 the April issue of FOR- 

 ESTRY A-ND IRRIGATION 

 of notes on "Recent 

 Forest Legislation " additional informa- 

 tion has been received concerning acts 

 which have been passed or are still 

 under consideration by various states. 



Maine. An appropriation of $2,500 

 for 1903 and a like amount for 1904 for 

 public instruction in forestry was made 

 under section 1 5 of the original forest 

 act, and the coming fall will probably 

 see a chair of forestry established at the 

 University of Maine. A slight change 

 was made in section 4 of the original 

 act creating a Forestry Commission. 



Minnesota. T w e 1 v e amendments 

 were made in the Minnesota forest fire 

 warden law at the recent session of the 

 legislature, which, it is felt, will improve 

 the measure considerably. The legisla- 

 ture also enacted a law authorizing the 

 State Forest Board to purchase land for 

 forest purposes. The board is author- 

 ized to acquire by purchase for the state 

 at a cost not exceeding $2.50 per acre, 

 and preferably at the sources of rivers, 

 any land in the state that is adapted to 

 forestry, but not to exceed in any one 

 congressional township one- eighth of 

 the area of the township, and to take 

 such steps as are necessary to maintain 

 forest thereon according to forestry 

 principles. One-quarter part of the net 

 forest revenue from such lands is to be 

 paid to the respective towns in which 



the lands are situated. No appropria- 

 tion was provided to carry the law into 

 effect. An appropriation was made, 

 however, for the enlargement of the 

 Itasca State Park and for the erection of 

 a building therein, $20,000 being set 

 aside for the purchase of additional land 

 and $5,000 for the building. The park 

 is at present under the control of the 

 Attorney General. The legislature en- 

 acted as an amendment to a previous 

 law a provision giving a bounty of $2.50 

 per acre per year for a period of six 

 years for each acre planted and kept in 

 good condition with any kind of forest 

 tree except Black Locust. This is lim- 

 ited to ten acres to any one person. 



California. An appropriation of $10,- 

 ooo has been made for preservation, 

 improvement, and maintenance of the 

 California Redwood Park, in Santa 

 Cruz count}-. The money is to be used 

 in building roads, bridges, etc., and for 

 the employment of a warden and neces- 

 sary assistants, $5,000 to be available 

 during this year and $5,000 in 1904. 



Pennsylvania. Six forest laws were 

 passed at the last session of the Penn- 

 sylvania Legislature. House bill No. 

 44 is as follows : 



"An act conferring upon persons em- 

 ployed under existing laws by the Com- 

 missioner of Forestry for the protection 

 of state forest reservations, after taking 

 the proper oath of office, the same powers 

 as are by law conferred upon constables 

 and other peace officers, to arrest with- 

 out first procuring a warrant, persons 

 reasonably suspected by them of offend- 

 ing against the laws protecting timber 

 lands, and also conferring upon them 

 similar powers for the enforcement of 

 the laws and regulations for the protec- 

 tion of the state forest reservations, and 

 for the protection of the game and fish 

 contained therein, and further confer- 

 ring upon them the power to convey 

 said offenders into the proper legal cus- 

 tody for punishment ; this act to apply 

 only to offenses committed upon said res- 

 ervations and lands adjacent thereto." 

 A second bill passed authorizes the 

 Governor to appoint a Deputy Commis- 

 sioner of Forestry and an additional 

 clerk in the office of the Commissioner 

 of Forestry. 



