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FORESTRY IN THE STATES. 



Act authorizing purchase of unseated lands at tax 

 sale for the purpose of creating a state forest reser- 

 vation. 



Act to provide reservation of 40,000 acres at head- 

 waters of each of three main rivers of the State. 

 1898 — Report of Commissioner of Forestry for 1S97 as Vol. 

 2 of the Report of Secretary of Agriculture for 1897. 



1901 — Establishment of Department of Forestry and Forest 

 Reserve Commission. Appointment of a State For- 

 ester. 



1902 — Establishment of a forest nursery and planting of 

 first trees by Department. 



1903 — Establishment of State Forest Academy at Mont 

 Alto. 



Appointment of a Deputy Commissioner of Forestry. 

 Report of Department of Forestry for 1901-2. 



1905 — Act making fixed charge on lands to compensate for 

 loss of taxes. 



Conferring on municipalities right to use water from 

 State forests. 



Report of Department of Forestry for 1903-4. 



1906 — Report of Department of Forestry for 1905-6. 

 First class of foresters graduated from the Forest 

 Academy. 



1907— General Shade Tree Act. 



1908 — Report of Department of Forestry for 1907. 

 First convention of Pennsylvania Foresters. 



1909 — Act to protect trees growing by the roadside. 



Act authorizing the Department of Forestry to grow 



and sell forest tree seedlings at cost. 



Act establishing municipal forests. (First law of the 



kind in the United States.) 



State Inspection and report on chestnut blight. 



New forest fire warden law. 



VERMONT. 



The outline given below, prepared by Mr. Austin F. Hawes, 

 State Forester of Vermont, mentions some of the steps which 

 led to the creation of the Board of Agriculture and Forestry. 



