REPORT OF THE FORESTRY BUREAU 



Hon. Charles H. Jackson, Deputy Commissioner, Division of 

 Lands and Forests, Conservation Commission, Albany, N. Y.: 



Sir. — I respectfully submit the following report relative to the 

 affairs of this bureau for the year 1913. 



The subjects to be considered are forest preserve, forest fire 

 protection, forest products, reforesting, and State forest problems. 



FOREST PRESERVE 



The main duties in connection with this vast area consist in 

 protecting it from trespass and fire. On account not only of its 

 large area but the fact that it is bounded by and has intermixed 

 with it private holdings of large and small areas, it is necessary 

 to exercise the greatest diligence over an extended area in order 

 to properly protect the Preserve from trespass. The same fact 

 links the matter of state lire protection with that of the private 

 owners. The various phases of the work will be separately con- 

 sidered. 



Trespass 



The decrease in the number of trespasses has been very grati- 

 fying; only sixteen cases have been reported, and the total value 

 of material is $2,008.25. There was probably not more than one 

 case of deliberate theft. In this instance the trespasser was 

 quickly detected and only $14.93 worth of material cut. Ten of 

 the sixteen cases occurred on land in which private owners dis- 

 pute the State's title. The largest trespass was caused by an 

 erroneous survey. A man who owned a lot adjacent to State land, 

 desiring to lumber his lot, employed a surveyor to locate his lands 

 before the lumbering operations were commenced. This surveyor 

 located a State lot rather than the private property. The con- 

 tractor commenced cutting on State land but was soon detected. 

 The value of the material cut was $1,683.86. We promptly made 



