WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



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''Sec. 3. The State forester shall, upon request, co-operate 

 with towns, counties, corporations and individuals in preparing 

 planting plans and plans for the protection, management and 

 replacement of trees, wood lots and timber tracts under an 

 agreement that the person obtaining such assistance shall pay 

 the field expenses of such work." 



Appointments under the law have already been made. A 

 forest policy, prepared and submitted by the State Forester, 

 has been approved by the board of regents and work of the 

 new organization is under way. According to the proposed for- 

 est policy "The projects requiring immediate attention come 

 under 2 classes : First, State work which includes the nursery and 

 planting operations at the Dodge City, Ogallah and Hays sta- 

 tions; second, all kinds of cooperative work." 



Nursery work at the Dodge City and Ogallah stations is 

 to be abandoned and the free distribution of forest tree seed- 

 ings eliminated. About twenty acres will be set aside, however, 

 at the Hays Branch Station for nursery purposes. The new 

 nursery will be developed for the purpose of growing trees suita- 

 ble for conditions in western Kansas. The plantations at the 

 Dodge City and Ogallah Stations and all cooperative plantations 

 will be supplied with nursery stock from the Hays Branch at cost 

 of production. The old stations mil be devoted, in part, to 

 demonstration plantings and to experiments in crop-growing 

 with a system of windbreaks. 



^ The forestry division has planned to carry on extensive 

 co-operative work with individual land owners in all parts of 

 the state. According to these plans from 4: to 6 demonstration 

 plantations, each containing not less than 5 acres, are to he 

 established in every county in western Kansas. 



In a communication from Prof. C. A. Scott, the recently 

 appointed State Forester of Kansas, the statement is made, 

 '*In addition to the purely forestry work in the state, ive are 

 laying considerable emphasis on park forestry, and at the pres- 

 ent time have several applications from toivns throughout the 

 state for park plans. Mr. Jansen, my assistant, is an expert 

 landscape gardner and this end of the work is being turned 

 over to him." 



