QO ALGERIA 



One section contains the officer's and the other the rangers' 

 quarters; each wing has, besides, two bedrooms and a kitchen. 



All these permanent houses are built of stone, cement, tiles, 

 and iron, which renders them fireproof and requires the mini- 

 mum of repairs. The cost of each of the three types averages : 

 (i) ii,ooo to 12,000 francs ($2123 to $2316); (2) 15,000 to 

 17,000 francs ($2895 to $3281); (3) 25,000 to 26,000 francs 

 ($4825 to $5018). 



Trespass. — Trespass has been the bane of the Algerian 

 Forest Service, because it has taken up a great part of the forest 

 officers' time when it was required for much needed constructive 

 administration. One of the contributing causes to this un- 

 fortunate situation is the attempt made to enforce legislation 

 which is not adapted to local conditions. As a result the vast 

 number of indicted trespass cases have so clogged the wheels 

 of administration that prompt action cannot be depended upon. 

 As late as 1903 even the fines imposed could not be collected. 



The 1903 code has been better suited to local conditions and 

 has given more adaptable and flexible penalties. Yet by the 

 most recent published statistics ^^ there were 29,707 current 

 trespass cases, classed as follows: grazing, 13,034; wood and 

 cork, 7232; crude bark, 143; illegal settlement, cultivation, 

 and boundaries, 864; hunting, 234; minor products, 719; fire, 

 653; Hghting fires in or near forests contrary to law, 530; 

 abandonment of lookout posts, 1502; construction or camping 

 within prohibited distance, 396; miscellaneous, 351; denuding 

 private forests, 369; violation of the forest decree of Aug. 20, 

 1904, 3672. 



In order to unify and standardize the methods used in han- 

 dling trespass cases, and to supplement official instructions and 

 decrees, a trespass handbook was pubUshed^- in 1910. But 

 with a native population unused to restraint in grazing and in 

 the use of wild land, it will be years before the trespass situation 

 is satisfactorily settled. 



''I Statistique Generale de I'Algerie, 1910, p. 299. 



^ Recherche et Constatation des Delits Forestieres et de chasse, par A. Lanoir, 

 1910. 



