No. 4.] 



REPORT OF STATE FORESTER. 



297 



State Plantations, 1912 — Concluded. 



Proposed Plan for doing Forestry Work on State Reser- 

 vations AND on State Lantds. 

 There are many State institutions and reservations that have 

 areas of land that should be placed under better systems of forestry 

 management, either by proper thinning or reforesting. The State 

 Forester is in a position to assist these institutions in the future 

 by offering them young trees from his nurseries free of charge. 

 He also will be at their service in outKning systems of forestry 

 management and in assisting in other ways in establishing a 

 definite forest policy. Surely those in charge should be able to 

 find some source whereby the manual labor expenses could be 

 met. In consulting with the Greylock Reservation Commission, 

 for example, we find that they are under considerable outlay in 



