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wooded land, such tract or tracts of land shall be 

 administered at the expense of the State, as provided 

 by law.*t 



SEC. 4. Co-operative work. The State Forester 

 shall, upon request and whenever he deems it essential 

 to the best interests of the people and the State, 

 co-operate with counties, towns, corporations, and indi- 

 viduals in preparing plans for the protection, manage- 

 ment and replacement of trees, woodlots and timber 

 tracts, on consideration and under an agreement that 

 the parties obtaining such assistance pay at least the 

 field expenses of the men employed in preparing said 

 plans. 



SEC. 5. Publication of laws and notices. The State 

 Forester shall prepare and print for public distribution 

 an abstract of all the forest laws of California, together 

 with such rules and regulations in accord therewith, as 

 he may deem necessary, and shall annually print and 

 distribute a list of all firewardens with their addresses, 

 all such matter to be published with the approval of the 

 State Board of Forestry. He shall also furnish notices, 

 printed in large letters on cloth, calling attention to the 

 danger from forest fires, and to forest fire and trespass 

 laws and their penalties. Such notices shall be posted 

 by the firewardens in conspicuous places along every 

 highway in brush and forest-covered country, at frequent 

 intervals along streams and lakes frequented by tourists, 

 hunters or fishermen, at established camping sites, and 

 in every post office in the forested region. 



SEC. 6. Fire districts. The State Forester shall 

 divide the State into such number of fire districts as 

 shall be deemed by him most necessary to the efficiency 

 of his work; and, furthermore, any county, or combina- 

 tion of less than four counties, shall be made a separate 

 fire district, upon request of the county board or boards 

 of supervisors, in which case such special fire district 



*One such tract was donated in 1909 by Mrs. Annie Bidwell 

 of Chico. 



tThe California Redwood Park is now in charge of a com- 

 missioner appointed by the Governor. Chapter 12, Laws of 1911. 

 [Approved February 6, 1911.] 

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