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12. In all cases the working of cutting and moving timber will be 

 stopped if it shall a])pear that the regulations, for any reason whatever, 

 are not followed, and the safety and good of the forest is not suflQciently 

 considered. 



13. Usually the application asks for a certain quantity of timber 

 located on a certain description, forty acres, or lot of ground, the as- 

 sumption being based on an estimate, that there is this amount of timber 

 on the particular area. If. however, the application calls for 100 M. 

 feet b. m. of timber on lot No. 2, and it shall be found that the estimate 

 was too high, and that only 75 M. feet b. m. of timber can be cut from 

 lot No. 2, the applicant will have no right to cut the rest of the timber 

 applied for (25 M. feet in this case) from some other lot. In other words, 

 the timber shall be applied for, and sold by area and not hy amount, and 

 cutting of timber in violation of this rule will be considered trespass. 



14. Any person having trespassed in timber will not be awarded any 

 timber, until his case as trespasser shall be settled. 



Such trespass may consist in : 

 • (a) Injury of timber. 



(b) Cutting and removing timber without permit. 



(c) Cutting on land not applied for, iu connection with a timber sale. 



(d) Cutting, in cases of sale, timber which has not been marked by 

 the Forest Officer, and yet is of a kind which should be marked before 

 cutting. 



15. It is a common mistake on the part of applicants and Forest 

 Officers to suppose that any kind of timber under any circumstances must 

 be sold whenever some one wishes to purchase. Such is not the case. 

 Timber will be sold only : 



(a) If its removal shall be rather a benefit than a detriment to the 

 forest cover. 



(b) If the applicant shall be willing and able to carry out the work 

 of removal in such manner that the forest will be left in fully as good a 

 condition as he finds it and not in the usual "slash" and "fire-trap" con- 

 dition in which little young growth is left, and this little with hardly 

 any future. 



X. — FOREST FIRES. 



There is no other agent which has done as much material harm to the 

 State of Michigan as the forest fire. Not only has it destroyed many 

 millions of dollars' worth of merchantable timber, but it has prevented 

 completely the billions of saplings and young trees of our extensive 

 forest districts from continuing in their growth and thereby maintaining 

 the supply of timber. 



While the damage first mentioned is very great, and is generally the 

 only damage considered, yet there is not a shadow of doubt but this in- 

 jury and destruction of the immature timber is far more serious than 

 that of the old merchantable material. In destroying the old timber, the 

 fire removed a ripe crop, in killing the young growth it destroyed the 

 forest, it removed the very possibility of future supplies. 



As long as it was supposed that all cut-over lands would settle up at 

 once, it appeared of little moment, and "it helps to clear the land" was 

 the usual excuse ; but now that we realize that not all land is likelv to be 



