No. 4.] REPORT OF STATE FORESTER. 325 



Summary of Recommendations. 



1 . That the laws relative to the assessment of woodlands 

 for taxation be amended. 



2. That a fund for the purchase and maintenance of State 

 forests be created. 



3. That steps be taken to improve the system of protec- 

 tion from forest fires. 



4. That appropriations for the State Forester's office be 

 increased from |5,000 to $6,000. 



Resignation of the State Forester, 

 In April I was elected to the chair of Forest Engineering 

 in the University of Georgia, of one branch of which (Frank- 

 lin College) I am a graduate. My reasons for accepting the 

 professorship were explained in a note to the Governor, as 

 follows : " I do not leave the service of the Commonwealth 

 because of dissatisfaction with my work ; on the contrary, I 

 have enjoyed my service here as only one can who loves to 

 tight for a good cause. Nor does the place in Georgia carry 

 a larger salary ; but I believe that it offers a better oppor- 

 tunity to forward the cause for which we foresters are work- 

 ing, and I feel it my duty to go." 



My resignation was accepted, to take effect on Sept. 15, 

 1906. 



Respectfully submitted, 



ALFRED AKERMAN, 



State Forester, Aug. 12, 1904, to Sejyt. 15, 1906. 



Part II. — Report of the State Forester from Sept. 



15, 1906, to Dec. 31, 1906. 

 To the Qeneral Court. 



Having been appointed State Forester, to succeed Mr. 

 Alfred Akerman, I assumed supervision on September 15, 

 and therefore the following report covers the time from that 

 date until the end of the year. 



The policy has been to carry forward the work already in 



