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COLORADO 

 FOREST SERVICE 

 DEPUTY SHERIFF 



They are supplied to the sheriffs of those counties where for- 

 ests exist, and a receipt is taken by the State Forester for the num- 

 ber of badges, which remain the property of the Department of State 

 Forestry. 



FIRIC REPORTS. Special fire report blanks are furnished to the 

 chief fire warden of each county with the request that they be used 

 in reporting the occurrence of fires. These blanks call for data as 

 to location and extent of the fire; cause of the fire; estimated dam- 

 age, and the cost of fighting' the fire. During the past season the 

 moisture conditions generally have been such as to reduce the fire 

 danger to a great degree, and only a few fires have been reported 

 Of those reported, one was apparently started by fishermen, while 

 the other four were started in the dry grass along a railroad, evident- 

 ly from locomotives. The first fire was reported to this department 

 by the Forest Service. It burned over about seven acres in a timber 

 slash following a timber sale on state lands. The latter fires were 

 all put out before any timber was burned. 



COMPILATION OF STATE FORESTRY LAWS. The large number 

 of laws dealing with forestry which have been enacted in the State 

 of Colorado made it desirable to have these laws compiled in a con- 

 venient form for use and for distribution among persons concerned 

 in the carrying out of these laws. In a number of cases these laws 

 appear to cover much the same ground and in others apparent con- 

 flicts appear. All the laws concerning forestry, however, have been 

 included in this compilation, which has been issued in the form of 

 a bulletin of twenty-four pages. A 2,000 edition has been issued. 

 It is expected that wide use will be made of this publication and 

 numerous calls have been made for it by people living outside our 

 own state. 



CO-OPERATIVE AGREEMENT WITH FOREST SERVICE. Early in 

 tlie work of organizing county fire wardens it was found desirable 

 to have some definite understanding with the officers of the Forest 

 Service in order to avoid possible conflicts of authority and to fur- 

 ther the work of controlling forest fires. After numerous confer- 

 ences with the District Forester, an agreement was drawn up which 

 seemed to cover the ground in a manner satisfactory to both the 

 forest service and State. 'Phis agreement, when finally submitted 

 to the Bureau of Forestry at Washington, was found to be accept- 

 able in the main and after some minor chancres, the execution of 



