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there has never been any organized effort to carry on this work. 

 The Federal Forest Service will undoubtedly welcome any serious 

 efforts on the part of the State to control the fires that start upon 

 its own lands. The prime consideration, therefore, is the organ- 

 izing of this fire control force so as to make it as effective as pos- 

 sible. 



B. TREE STUDIES. Shade and Timber Tree Surveys. See 

 page 25. 



Co-operative Timber Preserving Project. See page 22. 



MATTERS FOR POSSIBLE FUTURE CONSIDERATION 



STATE FORESTRY NURSERY. Several states have established 

 forest nurseries which supply trees at cost or even donate them in 

 some cases to parties who show sufficient interest and appreciation. 

 This could be made a valuable means of encouraging not only 

 more extensive tree planting, but the planting of the best adapted 

 species and those which have been grown from seed within our 

 own state. 



SOME ADVANTAGES OF THE PRESENT 

 ARRANGEMENT. 



Every system is apt to have some disadvantages which hamper 

 the efficiency of its workings. Possibly the present case is no ex- 

 ception. 



Other methods which have been tried in this state have appar- 



The following states have state foresters or forest commission- 

 ers: Alabama, California, Connecticut, Indiana, Kansas, Ken- 

 tucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, 

 Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Caro- 

 lina, Rhode Island, Vermont, Wisconsin. In some of the states 

 not named the forestry problem has been turned over to a Commis- 

 ently not been so successful as their promoters desired and expected. 

 But should this fact be a sufficient reason why the State of Colorado 

 should let her hands hang in helpless dejection by her sides while 

 the forest lands of the State are being left unguarded from the fire 

 menace ? 



The Federal Forest Service has its hands full to overflowing 

 with its own problems and the indications at present are not such 

 that we can expect much aid from an already heavily worked force 

 of men.. 



The present arrangement, as provided for in the new Forestry 

 bill, is not new to this country as a whole nor even to this State. 



