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9. COMMISSIONER OF GAME AND FISH POST NOTICES. It 

 shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Game and Fish to have 

 posted, in manner as required by the State Forester all notices pre- 

 pared by the State Forester concerning the prevention and exting- 

 uishing of forest fires. (Laws 1911, page 421, Sec. 9.) 



10. PENALTY FOR REMOVING NOTICES. Any person who re- 

 moves, injures or defaces any sign or signs placed or maintained in 

 pursuance of Section 9, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, 

 and upon conviction, shall be fined not to exceed $25.00 and costs 

 of prosecution, or imprisonment, not to exceed thirty days in the 

 county jail, or both, at the discretion of Court. (Laws 1911, page 

 421, Sec. 10.) 



11. STATE FORESTER REPORT TO GOVERNOR. Said State 

 Forester shall, biennially, make to the Governor, a report of the 

 transactions of his office, and shall make such recommendations as 

 he shall deem necessary with a view toward prescribing laws neces- 

 sary to make his office an effective factor for the purposes for 

 which it is created. (Laws 1911, page 421, Sec. n). 



12. There is hereby appropriated, for the biennial period of 

 1911 and 1912, out of any funds in the State Treasury not other- 

 wise appropriated, the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) 

 for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act, 

 and there is hereby appropriated, for each successive biennial period, 

 the said sum of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) for such pur- 

 poses, and the Auditor of State is hereby authorized to draw his 

 warrants upon said funds, upon the order of The State Board of 

 Agriculture, signed by its President and countersigned by its Sec- 

 retary. (Laws 1911, page 421, Sec. 12.) 



This act, which makes the Professor of Forestry of the State 

 Agricultural College ex-officio State Forester, resembles in this 

 respect the previous enactments concerning the officers of State 

 Entomologist, State Geologist, State. Mining Engineer, and State 

 Chemist, in the fact that this officer is, like the others, connected 

 with one of the various state institutions. 



While this is not a complete record of the forestry legislation 

 in Colorado, it traces the main features of the matter up to the pres- 

 ent time. The problem which now confronts the official in this new 

 office of State Forester is hardly less difficult than that with which 

 the earlier Forest Commissioner had to contend with this excep- 

 tion, that the forest areas belonging to the state are much smaller 

 than the timbered lands under the supervision of the Forest Com- 

 missioner. Then, too, the work which the National Forest Service 

 has inaugurated upon government lands has helped to educate the 

 people to the idea of forest conservation. The example set by other 



