NOTES. 



Wisconsin's "This year the forest tires in Wisconsin have 



1908 Fire Loss, burned over 1,200,000 acres of land, and have 

 caused $9,000,000 worth of damage," said 

 State Forester E. M. Griffith, of Wisconsin, recently. "This 

 large loss is due primarily to the burning of large tops and limbs, 

 called slash, left in logging operations." 



Proposed The Wisconsin Legislature will this year have 



WiscoNSix before it some legislation of great importance 



Legislation. in regard to the disposal of brush. The legis- 



lation is being asked for by lumbermen them- 

 selves, organized as the "Wisconsin Timberland Owners' Asso- 

 ciation," and there is every reason to hope that their requests 

 will be acceded to. Some of the legislation asked for, as em- 

 bodied in a resolution of the body named above, is as follows: — 



Sec. 1. Any person who shall cut, or cause to be cut, any 

 logs, bolts, pulp wood, ties, poles, posts, or other forest products, 

 in any of the counties designated in Section 4 of this Act, shall 

 pile the tops and refuse as the cutting proceeds, and shall, within 

 one year from such cutting and felling, burn all such piles of 

 refuse and tops, and in such burning all reasonable care shall 

 be taken not to damage standing tim.ber or adjoining propert)-. 

 The term "burning" shall be construed to mean the destruction 

 by fire of so much of such slashings as would become easily 

 combustible miaterial and dangerous in event they were not so 

 destroyed, but no burning shall he done during dangerously dry 

 weather. 



Sec. 2. Any person who violates any of the provisions 

 in regard to the burning of slashings, refuse, etc., shall be guilt}' 

 of a misdemeanor and shall, on conviction therefore, be punished 

 by a fine of not less than fifty (50) cents, nor more than two 

 dollars ($2.00) per thousand feet, log scale for all timber; not 

 less than twent^^-five (25) cents, nor more than one dollar ($1.00) 

 per cord for all bolts, pulpwood, cord wood or bark; and not less 

 than ten (10) per cent, nor more than fifty (50) per cent, of the 

 full cash value of other forest products cut and removed from 

 such land. 



Sec. 3. In case anv person fails to properly pile and burn 

 the tops and refuse, the state board of forestrv may, in its dis- 

 cretion, cause the same to be done, and the expense thereof 

 shall be a lien on the timber or other forest product cut from 

 the land on which the tops and refuse are situated or cut. and 



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