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FORESTRY IN THE STATES. 



KENTUCKY. 



The Kentucky State Board of Agriculture, Forestry and 

 Immigration and the United States Forest Service have been 

 conducting for the past 3 years a co-operative study and survey 

 of the forests of the state. For this purpose $2,000 may be used 

 out of the annual appropriations by the Board, and this amount 

 is duplicated by the Forest Service. 



So far, a careful investigation has been made by expert 

 forest examiners covering more than half of the total area of 

 the state and carefully prepared maps and reports have been 

 published to show the prevailing conditions found. 



The result of this study, it is expected, will be the inaugur- 

 ation of a complete forest policy as recommended by the Forest 

 Service. This will include the appointment of a State Board 

 of Forestry; the employment of a State Forester; the enact- 

 ment of efficient forest fire laws; the appointment of forest fire 

 wardens; and ^he acquirement and administration of state 

 forest reservations. 



MAINE. 



The Forest Commission of Maine is devoting its principal 

 energies to the prevention and control of fires in the state's 

 vast forest areas. The forest fire laws are executed by a large 

 number of chief and deputy fire wardens who are under direc- 

 tion of the forest commissioner. A feature of the law that has 

 been eminently Successful gives the forest commissioner 

 authority to establish lookout stations connected by telephone, 

 and to equip and maintain depots for the necessary tools for 

 the extinguishment of forest fires.'' 



In a letter addressed to the state forester of New York and 

 dated January 6th, 1909, Mr. Edgar E. Ring, Land Agent and 

 Forest Commissioner of Maine, writes of the lookout stations 

 as follows : ' ' We have in this state nine lookout stations located 

 on high points of land, in which men are stationed during the 

 summer season to watch for forest fires." 



''They are a great success and we expect to establish a 

 number more the coming season. They are connected by tele- 



