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(XXXIII). ..GOVERNMENTAL SAFETY MEASURES TAKEN 

 IN PRIVATE FORESTS: 



Governmental measures, affecting private forests, either assist 

 (§XXXIII-§XXXV) or restrict (§XXXVI.) the owners dispositions. 



Governmental assistance in private forests consists either in 

 safety measures (§XXXIII) or revenue measures (§XXXIV). 



Governmental action is lead by the idea that conservative fores- 

 try wilU be practiced by private individuals if it appears to be a safe 

 and renumerative investment. The measures consist of: 



(a). Law making; 



(b). Creating a staff to enforce the laws; 



(c). Appropriating money to pay for the service; 



Safety measures might be enacted: 



1. With reference to forest soil: 



a. Good public records of real property, kept at the county seats, 

 based on governmental surveys, combined with public maintain- 

 ance of corner marks; laws punishing destruction of corner 

 marks; laws relative to procession proceedings. 



b. Repeal of laws relative to forfeiture of property through non- 

 use, since conservative forestry, seemingly, leaves the woods un- 

 used for decades of years. 



2. With reference to trees: 



c. Laws spreading foresty morals through public schools and gov- 

 ernment divisions. (Arbor Day movement.) 



d. Governmental staff protecting trees together with fish and 

 game. 



e. Laws preventing mice and insect plagues, and laws protecting 

 useful animals. 



3. With reference to forest fires: 



f. Laws relative to public roads. 



g. Laws enforcing help, in case of forest fires, from all able bodied 

 males, and laws requiring an observer of forest fires to at once 

 notify the nearest fire warden. 



h. Fire-warden laws. (Should not be elected; should be well 

 paid by State and not by counties; should be efficiently controll- 

 ed; should have small beats; and should be rewarded for good 

 services. 



i. Laws relative to the burning of fields and woods by owners. 

 (Give notice to adjoining land owners; fire only for clearing land 

 in calm weather during certain months of the year and pay dam- 

 ages in case of escape of fires). 



j. Laws regulating camp fires, herder's fires, hunter's fires, duties 

 of guides and guide-licenses. 



