The following is a list of the States which are well advanced along 

 State forestry lines and a list of their appropriations for the year 1916: 



California $ 27,900 New Jersey $ 43,000 



Connecticut 15,000 New York 177,800 



Idaho 18,000 North Carolina 23,000 



Kentucky 15,000 Ohio 24,000 



Maine 74,30 ) Oregon 30,000 



Maryland - 14 ' 000 Pennsylvania .. 315,000 



Massachusetts 83,000 



Michigan 125,OJO Vermont 19,500 



Minnesota 117,000 Washington .. 37,500 



New Hampshire 38,800 Wisconsin 35,000 



The average annual appropriation of these States is $64,884. 



Many other States have made notable progress in forestry within the 

 space of a few years, among which Texas with its annual appropriation of 

 $10,000 is by no means least. The prairie State of Indiana provides $8,000 

 for forestry work, Colorado $5,000, Montana, $6,000, North Dakota $5,000, 

 Rhode Island $3,000, South Dakota $9,500, Tennessee $4,000, Virginia and 

 West Virginia $10,000 each, and treeless Kansas $3,750 for maintaining a 

 State forest nursery. Louisiana has during the present year inaugurated a 

 forestry policy and $20,000 a year will be available. It is notable that 

 some of the smallest States as well as States where the forest areas 

 and forest industries are insignificant make large forestry appropriations. 

 The States which are most liberal in their appropriations appear to be 

 those like Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin 'and others, which have 

 found their forest resources verging on exhaustion and are now taking 

 liberal but belated measures to restore them. 



The only States in the country which exceed Texas in the amount of 

 lumber manufactured annually are, Washington, Louisiana, Mississippi, 

 North Carolina and perhaps Arkansas. In size Texas exceeds all others 

 and being located so that most of the State is far removed from sources 

 of timber the importance of maintaining its timber supply is greater than 

 in most other States. Few people realize the extent of forest lands in 

 Texas or the value of the industries dependent upon them. The timber 

 belt of Eastern Texas alone is greater in area than the total area of many 

 States or even groups of States. In tree planting or the management of 

 farm woodlots the enormous territory of central and western Texas merits 

 equally as much consideration as does eastern Texas or any other State. 

 Based on land area, population or forest resources Texas should be among 

 the foremost to advocate and carry out the principles of forestry. 



In State forestry activity, Texas stands today among those States 

 whose work is just under way. There has been a group of earnest and 

 far-sighted citizens in Texas who have worked zealously for many years 

 for the inauguration of a State forest policy. This culminated early in 

 1915 in the formation of the Texas Forestry Association whose members. 



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