1905 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



151 



erty, used by the fire warden, 

 and it is made an offense pun- 

 ishable by fine to ignore the warden's 

 call for assistance, either personally, 

 or in their use of wagons, tools, etc. 

 The chief of the fire department in 

 such towns as have such an organized 

 department is designated as fire war- 

 den for that town, and where no such 

 department exists, the Forestry Com- 

 mission will appoint one of the Board 

 of Selectmen to that position. Their 

 compensation is to be paid for by the 

 towns themselves, and at the regular 

 salary they are ordinarily paid as 

 members of the fire department or as 

 selectmen. A severe fine is provided 

 for any fire warden who neglects or 

 refuses to perform his duties, and a 

 section provides that, upon applica- 

 tion of owners of forest lands in un- 

 organized towns, special fire wardens 

 may be appointed by the Forestry 

 Commission, which board also fixes 

 their salary. One-third the cost of 

 these is borne by the owners, one-third 

 by the township, and the remaining 

 one-third by the State. It is also pro- 

 vided that persons discovering a forest 

 fire must extinguish it, or report its 

 location immediately to the fire war- 

 den, or be liable to a fine. 



The Dausman bill passed 

 Indiana Pro- 1,1 T 1- 1-1 



tects Its Forests "V the Indiana legisla- 

 ture, is designed to pro- 

 tect forest lands in Indiana, after nine 

 sections providing that one-eighth of 

 any farm used for forestry purposes 

 under the direction of- the Bureau of 

 Forestry, should be exempt from taxa- 

 tion for twelve years, had been stricken 

 out. The act passed provides a maxi- 

 mrm fine of $50 for any person who 

 sets fire to any woods belonging to an- 

 other, or allows fires from his own 

 land to spread to woods owned by 

 others. It also empowers the road su- 

 pervisor to employ aid to extinguish 

 fires which started in his district. 



To Save Wash- 



,, , Representative Irv- 

 i o have Wash- . , ,.,, . ,, , xr , 

 ington's Forests m S bill m the Wash- 

 ington legislature, in- 

 troduced on Feb. 23, and providing 

 for the creation of a State Board of 



Forest Commissioners, a fire warden, 

 and a forester, and later passed, will 

 have the effect of safeguarding more 

 closely the forest wealth of that Pa- 

 cific Coast State from the destructive 

 forest fires of recent years, and the 

 almost equally destructive ravages of 

 lumbermen with the slogan "cut 

 clean." The State Forester is to have 

 a salary of $1,800 a year, but the Board 

 of Commissioners serve without com- 

 pensation. A chief fire warden is pro- 

 vided for, and the board has the power 

 to appoint special deputy fire wardens, 

 to serve in such sections of the country 

 as in their opinion require especial su- 

 pervision and care. Washington al- 

 ready has a law requiring spark-ar- 

 resters on engines, etc., in forest lands, 

 but there has never been a rigid en- 

 forcement of the act, but in the meas- 

 ure passed, the fire wardens are spe- 

 cially directed to see that all laws pro- 

 mulgated are respected, and to arrest 

 and convict violators. Persons refus- 

 ing assistance in fighting forest fires, 

 when called upon to do so by wardens 

 or deputy wardens, are liable to a fine. 

 All State land cruisers are constituted 

 c.v-oficio forest rangers, and supple- 

 mentary rangers may, in addition, be 

 appointed by the board. All such 

 wardens, rangers, deputy rangers, and 

 police officers are empowered to make 

 arrests without warrant. Persons set- 

 ting fire to forest lands not their own, 

 or who start dangerous fires near for- 

 est lands during the closed season are- 

 liable to arrest and conviction. A di- 

 rect appropriation of $25,000 is made 

 for carrying out the provisions of the 

 act. 



One rarely sees more- 

 forcible evidence of a 

 prolonged battle for 

 existence and its final outcome than 

 that of the live oak and grapevine 

 shown in the accompanying illustra- 

 tion, which is from a photograph re- 

 cently made in the coast region of 

 North Carolina by Mr. Romeyn B. 

 Hough, publisher of "American 

 Woods." 



Here is a sturdy live oak, perhaps- 



Fight to a 

 Finish 



