THE PROGRESS OF FORESTRY IN NEW ENGLAND 379 



I. Forest Administration. 

 Connecticut. 

 Administration. 



A. — Connecticut was the first state in New England to adopt 

 a forestry policy and to employ a state forester, having made a 

 beginning as early as the spring of 1901, when a forester was 

 appointed in the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. 



All forestry work in Connecticut is under the direction of 

 the state forester,^ who is appointed by the board of control 

 of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station and is a 

 member of the station staff. His office is at the experiment 

 station in New Haven and his salary is paid by the station. 

 The current appropriations by the state and the station avail- 

 able for forestry purposes for the year 191 1 were approximately 

 $10,000. The legislature of 191 1 estabHshed the position of 

 assistant state forester, who is also a member of the Experiment 

 Station staff. 



Fire Service. 



B. — The state forester is ex-officio state forest fire warden. 

 Town fire wardens are appointed by the board of selectmen of 

 the various towns, subject to the approval of the state forester. 

 These town wardens are required to divide their towns into two 

 or more districts and appoint district wardens in charge of them. 

 Where city and town boundaries are co-terminous, the chief of 

 the fire department is ex-officio warden. 



The fire wardens are entrusted with preventing all forest 

 fires and enforcing all laws pertaining to fires. They have 

 authority to arrest without warrant any person taken in the act 

 of violating any of the laws for the protection of the forests. 

 In seasons of drought, wardens may establish patrols, and, in 

 case of fire, may summon male residents between the ages of 

 eighteen and fifty, may destroy fences, plow land, and set back 

 fires. 



* The present state forester is Mr. Samuel N. Spring. 



