WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



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1909— Publication of Bulletin 204, of the Experiment Sta- 

 tion on "Forest Conditions in OMo" by W. J. Green 

 and Edmund Seer est. 



Third annual report of the forester of the Experi- 

 ment Station by W. J. Green and Edmund Secrest. 



1910 — Appointment of Edmund Secrest as Forester of the 

 Experiment Station. 



Publication of a report on the "Durability of Post 

 Timbers/' Bulletin of the Experiment Station, by 

 W. J. Green and J. J. Crumley." 



PENNSYLVANIA. 



The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is the owner at present 

 of 920,000 acres of land for forest reserves. The management 

 and protection of this large forest area is the principal work of 

 40 scientifically trained foresters and over 100 rangers. 



Robert S. Conklin, Commissioner of Forestry and President 

 of the State Forestry Reservation Commission, who prepared for 

 this report the chronological statement of the status of forestry 

 in Pennsylvania as given below, states that "the work of protect- 

 ing and developing the forests in the state is going forward with 

 great rapidity. 



Forestry in Pennsylvania. 



1681— Sec. XVIII William Penn's Charter of Rights: "In 

 clearing the ground care shall be taken to leave one 

 acre of trees for every five acres cleared; especially 

 to preserve the Oak and Mulberries for silk and 

 shipping. ' ' 



1700 — Act against felling trees on another man's land with- 

 out permission. 



1735 — Act to prevent damages from firing woods. 



1785 — Publication of "Arbustrum Americanum" by Hum- 

 phry Marshall. 



1794 — Second act against firing woods. Others followed in 

 1860, '69, '70, '79, etc. Act against cutting timber 

 trees or firing woods. 



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