FOREST CONSERVATION IN. SOUTHERN PINE REGION. 11 
to make forest investigations. A reasonably adequate appropriation 
of funds will be required to carry on the work. 
- As an example of a law which provides for these features may be 
cited that which was recently passed by the Legislature of Texas. 
This measure is brief and simple. The Texas Forestry Association 
was organized by a number of public-spirited citizens especially to 
do educational work on its behalf, and the press throughout the 
State gave very generously of space in both news and editorial 
columns for the same purpose. The law follows: 
An act authorizing the board of directors of the Agricultural and Mechanical 
College to appoint a State forester, prescribing his qualifications, duties, and 
salary, providing for a system of forest protection, management, and replace- 
ment, and declaring an emergency. 
Be wt enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas: 
SEcTion 1. That there shall be appointed by the board of directors of the 
Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas a State forester, who shall 
be a technically trained forester of not less than two years’ experience in pro- 
fessional forestry work. His compensation shall be fixed by said board at not 
to exceed $3,000 per annum, and he shall be allowed reasonable traveling and 
field expenses incurred in the performance of his official duties. He shall, 
under the general supervision of said board, have direction of all forest inter- 
ests and all matters pertaining to forestry within the jurisdiction of the State. 
He shall appoint, subject to the approval and confirmation of said board, such 
assistants and employees aS may be necessary in executing the duties of his 
office and the purposes of said board, the compensation of such assistants and 
employees to be fixed by the said board. He shall take such action as may be 
deemed necessary by said board to prevent and extinguish forest fires, shall 
enforce all laws pertaining to the protection of forest and woodlands, and 
prosecute for any violation of such laws; collect data relative to forest con- 
ditions, and to cooperate with landowners as described in section 2 of this 
act. He shall prepare for said board annually a report on the progress and 
condition of State forestry work, and recommend therein plans for improv- 
ing the State system of forest protection, management and replacement. 
Sec. 2. That the State forester shall, upon request, under the sanction of the 
board of directors, and whenever he deems it essential to the best interests of 
the people of the State, cooperate with counties, towns, corporations, or indi- 
viduals in freparing plans for the protection, management, and replacement of 
trees, woodlots, and timber tracts, under an agreement that the parties obtain- 
ing such assistance pay at least the field expenses of the men employed in 
preparing said plans. 
Sec. 3. That the governor of the State is authorized, upon the recommenda- 
tion of the board of directors, to accept gifts of land to the State, same to be 
held, protected, and administered by said board as State forests, and to be 
used so as to demonstrate the practical utility of timber culture and water 
conservation, and as refuges for game. Such gifts must be absolute, except for 
the reservation of all mineral and mining rights over and under said lands, 
and a stipulation that they shall be administered as State forests. 
The board of directors shall have the power to purchase lands in the name 
of the State, suitable chiefly for the production of timber, as State forests, 
using for such purposes any special appropriation or any surplus meney not 
otherwise appropriated, which may be standing to the credit of the State 
forestry fund. 
