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FORESTRY IN THE STATES. 



1 — Administration and protection of 1,588,874 acres of 



state forest reserves situated in 12 Adirondack and 

 4 Catskill counties. 



2 — The protection from fire of all land in the Adirondacks 



and Catskills mthout regard to ownership. 



3 — Gathering and tabulating statistics from a large num- 



ber of saw mills. 



4 — Reforestation of state lands. 



5 — Management of forest tree nurseries. 



6 — Experiment work in cooperation with Government For- 



est Service. 



An area of about 6,000 acres has been planted ivith forest 

 trees including such species as "White Pine, Scotch Pine, Nor- 

 way Spruce, Bull Pine and Eureopean Larch. 



Five nurseries having a combined area of about 31 acres 

 supply large numbers of trees for state land and cooperative' 

 forest plantations. These, however, are inadequate to meet the 

 demands. Hon. James S. Whipple, Forest^ Fish and Game 

 Commissioner, declares, "We are not growing one twenty-fifth 

 as many trees as we ought." He recommends that at least 

 $100,000 be spent each year in this particular work and that 

 at least 30 million trees should be furnished annually to the peo- 

 ple of the state at a price lower than cost. 



During the last session of the New York Legislature im- 

 portant changes were made in the laws relating to the state's 

 forest possessions. The particular features of the amended law 

 of most importance are summarized in commissioner Whipple's 

 Fifteenth Annual Report as follows : 



''First — Those which provide for the cutting off of limbs 

 ■from the tops of coniferous trees when felled, that 

 they and the tops may lie flat down on the ground^ 

 gather and retain moisture and soon rot. 



Second — For a paid fire patrol. 



Third — For the construction of observation stations on 

 mountain tops, and telephone lines through the for- 

 est connecting up the stations. 



