forestry law. It was broad in 
coverage, including 
provisions against trespass 
on State and private property 
and against fires caused by 
railroads, loggers, and the 
burning of charcoal and 
other fuels. The law also 
provided for forest reserves. 
It defined the duties of the 
State’s Department of Game, 
Fish, and Forestry in 
administering the law. But, 
as was So often the case 
among the States, the 
legislature appropriated no 
money to Carry out the act. 
The Act of 1909 established 
as a bureau the State 
Geological Survey and 
included in its responsibility 
the survey of forest resources 
(State of Tennessee 1910 
unpubl.). The USDA Forest 
Service cooperated with the 
State in publishing a 
"Preliminary Study of Forest 
Conditions" in 1910. This 
report included program 
recommendations. 
Four years later, in 1914, the 
Tennessee Geological Survey 
employed its first forester, 
R.S. Maddox, who became 
State Forester when the 
Bureau of Forestry was 
created in 1921. In 1922 the 
bureau, in cooperation with 
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the Forest Service, 
established a State 
fire-control system with 
financing under the Weeks 
law. In 1923 the bureau 
became a division of forestry 
under the State Department 
of Agriculture, where it 
remained until 1937 (Widner 
1968). 
Georgia 
Georgia schools began 
observing Arbor Day in 1890, 
and in 1906 with a gift of 
$2,000 from George Foster 
Peabody, the University of 
Georgia appointed its first 
professor of forestry. The 
first degree in forestry was 
granted in 1912. The 
conservation movement 
began to develop rapidly in 
Georgia after the Capper 
Report of 1920 (USDA Forest 
Service 1920) and was 
stimulated by the Southern 
Forestry Congresses. 
The 1921 forestry act 
established a State Board of 
Forestry with purely 
investigative duties (no funds) 
and charged it to make 
recommendations to the 
legislature in 1922. The 
board's report included a 
draft bill to establish a State 
