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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



private forest lands and should plant 

 these lands at cost, as its forestry em- 

 ployes know the business of tree plant- 

 ing and private owners do not. He 

 also urges the amendment of the State 

 Constitution as follows: (a) To permit 

 the leasing of camp sites in the State 

 Forest Preserves, to afford the people a 

 freer and more satisfactory use and en- 

 joyment of their own recreation grounds ; 

 (b) To permit the utilization of mature 



and dead timber in the Forest Pre- 

 serves, under State supervision, which 

 would not only result in a revenue of 

 millions annually to the state, but 

 would also improve the condition of the 

 growing timber in several ways; (c) And, 

 to authorize the construction of roads 

 through the Forest Preserves for forest 

 fire protection and other public pur- 

 poses. 



A SOUTH CAROLINA FORESTRY LAW 



A DETERMINED effort is to be with towns, corporations and individuals 



/ \ made to have the South Carolina in preparing plans for the utilization, 



A \legislature pass a forestry law protection, management, and replace- 



this year which will give to the ment of trees, wood-lots and timber 



state the kind of forest management tracts, under an agreement that parties 



best suited to the interest of its people, obtaining such assistance pay the field 



The proposed law provides for the expenses of the men employed in pre- 



appointment of a state board of forestry, paring such plans; to have charge of all 



comprising nine members, the Governor the forest wardens, employ proper 



of the State, the director of the South 

 Carolina State Experiment Station; the 

 Commissioner of Agriculture; the presi- 

 dent of the University of South Caro- 

 lina; the President and the professor of 



means to prevent and to fight forest 

 fires and to enforce forest and wood- 

 land laws. 



The law also provides that all rural 

 lands to which the state now has title, 



Forestry at Clemson Agricultural Col- or may acquire title, shall if suitable 



lege, and three persons to be appointed 

 by the Governor. 



This board is to appoint a technically 

 trained man as state forester at a salary 

 not to exceed $2,500 a year. He is also 

 to act as secretary of the board. 



for a forest, be held as a state forest. 

 These lands are then to be used to 

 demonstrate the practical utility of 

 timber culture and for the purpose of 

 forest management. 



Stringent provisions are made in the 



The forester is to have charge of all proposed law for fire protection on the 



matters pertaining to forestry in the lines approved by the Forest Service, 



jurisdiction of the state; to carry on an The proposed law also provides for an 



educational forestry campaign by giving appropriation of $10,000 for the salary 



lectures, preparing bulletins, advising of the state forester and the expense of 



colleges and schools regarding courses carrying on his work in 1914. 

 of instruction in forestry; to co-operate 



There are 36,500,000 young trees in the government's forest nurseries. 



Two tons of cascara bark have just been sold from the Siuslaw national forest, Oregon, at one 

 cent a pound. 



The northernmost national forest is the Chugach in Alaska; the southernmost is the Luquilloin 

 Porto Rico. 



For shingles alone, 750 million feet of timber is cut in that part of the state of Washington which 

 lies west of the Cascades. 



