THE FORESTER. 



203 



COOPERATION WITH STATES. 



W\i]\q the forest fire protective systems maintained by the States 

 in cooperation with the Federal Government have been extending, 

 there has also been a recent greatly increased cost of operation. The 

 ap])ropriation of $100,000 is now very inadeq[uate. 



Expenditures from the Federal appropriation, and the expenditures 

 of the States which have entered into cooperative agreements, are 

 shown in the following table. The area protected was much greater 

 than ever before. This was made possible by the fact that the co- 

 operative funds contributed by States and private owners were 

 greater than in 1918. The Federal fund was of course the same as 

 in 191S. 



Cooperative expenditures from Federal appropriation and by the States for protecting 

 forested watersheds of naviijable streams from fire. 



State. 



Maine 



New Uampshir 



Vermont 



Mas.<achuselts. .. 

 Rhoio Island... 



Conned icut 



New York 



New Jersey 



Maryland." 



Virginia 



West Vir^jinia.. 

 Nortli Carolina.. 



Kentiiekv 



Louisiana 



Texas 



Michigan 



Expenditure fiscal year 1919. 



Federal! State 



$7,296.73 

 6,.V)I.23 

 2, 217.62 

 3, 291. nO 

 92.25 

 1,02.>.00 

 7.221.98 

 1.968.90 

 2..'>2J.(.J 

 2.725.34 

 4.005.00 

 1,207.16 

 2,429.00 

 2, .581. 00 

 .i,27.00 

 4,280.50 



5125,893.03 



2:i.218..58 

 2. 1.58. 67 



32, 781.. 52 



4,097.53 



5.217.10 



117,131.08 



20. 743. 92 

 3,819.95 

 3, 259. 83 

 9,140.40 

 2, 433. 77 

 5,-538.22 

 9.451.RJ 

 4,609.20 



60,917.99 



Total. 



$133. 189. 76 



29, 772. 81 



4,37*1.29 



36.076.02 



4.1H9.7S 



6.242.10 



12 <.;;.-)., 06 



22.712.H2 



5, 98.5. 17 

 13.14.5.40 



3, 6 JO. 93 



7,967.22 

 12,0:.83 



7,8Jt->.20 

 65, 198. 49 



Expenditure fiscal year 1919. 



SUte. 



Wisconsin 



I Minnesota 



South Dakota... 



Montana 



Idaho 



Washington 



Oregon 



Administration 

 and inspection 



Total 



Unexpended 

 balance 



Appropriation . . 



Federal. State. Total. 



$4,023.63 

 8,807.32 

 282.00 

 2, 499. 95 

 4,565.34 

 9, 69a 63 



10,210.16 



7,140.49 



99,921.38 

 7a 62 



100.000.00 



$16,261.44 

 56,519.39 

 4,988.00 

 8,9a5.3S 

 46,229.7;i 

 37, 162. 26 

 24,966.72 



625, 445. 5i 



$20, 285. 07 

 6.5. .^26. 71 

 5, 270. (K) 

 11.405.35 

 50,79.5.07 

 46.8}1.H<J 

 35, 176. 88 



7,110.49 



725,366.92 



An agreement entered into with Khode Island made that State the 

 twenty-third to enter into cooperation. Toward the end of the fiscal 

 vear California requested cooperation, but the agreement had not 

 been completed when the year closed. 



Protection from forest fires is the first essential to forest conserva- 

 tion. Without an organized and efficient system, such as can be 

 maintained only with adequate regular appropriations, the forests can 

 not be made safe. No better proof of this could be given than the 

 situation which -arose in Minnesota in the fall of 1918, when a large 

 number of relatively small fires burned for weeks because of lack of 

 men and equipment to extinguish them, and finally came together in 

 five large conflagrations, according to the State Forester, which in the 

 aggi-egate swept over not less than 200,000 acres, destroyed property 

 worth about $25,000,000, and caused a loss of more than 400 lives. 

 Estimates based on forest fire statistics collected in cooperation with 

 State and private agencies indicate that in the calendar year 1918 not 

 less than 25,000 fires occurred, with an area of fully 10,500,000 acres 

 burned over and a financial loss in timber, young tree gi'owth, and 

 improvements of about $40,000,000. Railroads caused approximately 

 18 per cent of the fires, brush burning and campers each 13 per cent, 

 lightning 10 per cent, incendiaries 9 per cent, miscellaneous causes 7 

 per cent, lumbering 5 per cent, and unknown causes 25 per cent. 



