1904 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



503 



Roads and Railroads. Counties, along 

 the county roads, and railroad com- 

 panies, along their lines of road, in 

 forest or brush land, shall, when so di- 

 rected by the State Forester, and in a 

 manner and to an extent prescribed by 

 it, cut and remove all brush, grass and 

 inflammable material from their rights 

 of way. If such clearing is not done 

 within a reasonable time after notice, 

 said time to be fixed by the State For- 

 ester, the State Forester shall have it 

 done and the County or railroad com- 

 pany shall be liable in an action of debt 

 for the expense thus incurred, and in 

 addition thereto for the expense of any 

 fire patrol rendered necessary by such 

 delay. 



Sec. 23. Disposal of Moneys Re- 

 ceived as Penalties. All moneys re- 

 ceived as penalties for violations of 

 the provisions of this act, less the cost 

 of collection, and not otherwise pro- 

 vided for, shall be held in the State 

 treasury as a fund available only for 

 forest protection ; provided, that one- 

 quarter of every fine received, or such 

 portion thereof as shall not exceed 

 $25, shall be paid to the person upon 

 whose information the action was 

 brought, and an equal amount shall be 

 paid to the Fire Warden who made the 



arrest; and, further, that if a Fire 

 Warden is both informant and prose- 

 cutor he shall be entitled to one-half 

 the fine, or as much thereof as shall 

 not exceed $50. 



Sec. 24. Moneys for Forest Pur- 

 poses. County Boards of Supervisors 

 are hereby authorized to appropriate 

 money for purposes of forest protec- 

 tion, improvement and management; 

 provided, however, that such sums 

 shall not in any one year exceed one 

 per cent of the assessed value of the 

 County property. 



Sec. 25. Payment of Expenses Un- 

 der This Act. The sums needed for 

 carrying out the provisions of this act 

 shall be appropriated annually out of 

 any money in the treasury not other- 

 wise appropriated. 



Sec. 26. All acts or parts of acts in- 

 consistent with the provisions of this 

 act are hereby repealed. 



Sec. 27. This act shall take effect 

 and be in force immediately after its 

 passage. 



In addition to the foregoing sections 

 the Bureau is considering others cov- 

 ering the matter of a rebate tax on 

 planted and cut-over lands, and in re- 

 gard to Arbor Day. 



THE FORMATION OF LODGEPOLE 



PINE FORESTS 



BY 

 MARTIN L. ERICKSON 



T ODGEPOLE PINE is primarily 



a gregarious tree. In the 

 Rocky Mountain region the typical 

 Lodgepole pine forest is a pure forest 

 of even stand of nearly the same age. 

 It covers within its altitudinal zone 

 whole mountain sides, to the almost 

 entire exclusion of other species, ex- 

 tending uninterrupted for milt^ 

 through canons and along mountain 

 divides. 



Such pure forests, however, are 



comparatively young as a consequence 

 of the inevitable forest fires which 

 pass intermittantly through the moun- 

 tains, destroying the virgin timber. 

 New forests must establish themselves 

 over these burned districts. The ma- 

 ture Lodgepole forest is not always a 

 pure forest. As the tree grows older, 

 the dominant ones suppress and final- 

 ly kill a great many overtopped trees. 

 This leaves space for more tolerant 

 species, as the Engelmann spruce and 



