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FORESTRY IN THE STATES. 



the warden service and inaugurate any other measures necessary 

 for the doing away with these fires. A study of the fires; which 

 occur in the state will be necessary before recommendations 

 along these lines can be made. 



' ' The next in importance to the prevention of forest fires, is 

 the education of land owners so that they may carry out 

 forestry principles on their own land. As already pointed out, 

 the example furnished by the state forests will be the most ef- 

 fective means of bringing this about. 



"Investigations and experiments will be made by tliis office 

 to obtain accurate informafion about the various forestry prob- 

 lems of the state, and the results will be published from time to 

 time. In the meantime the state forester will be glad to meet 

 granges and other organizations and to explain ike purposes and 

 results of forestry methods. ■ He is prepared to give illustrated 

 lectures when desired. ***** ^ * Correspondence 

 is especially invited on all forestry topics. 



The state al- 

 ready has a well established nursery. This will be enlarged at 

 once, with the hope of supplying in a few years a large amount 

 of material. In the meantime the aim of the office will be rather 

 to furnish small orders to a large number, so that every land 

 owner may become interested by the time a large supply is 

 available. ' ' 



WASHINGTON. 



Encouraged by the results obtained through scientific man- 

 agement of the National forests on the Pacific slope, and awak- 

 ened to the need for protection through the depletion of their 

 own forests by lumbermen and by fires, several of the states in 

 the ''far west" have established departments of forestry and 

 have become leaders in forest conservation. Among the fore- 

 most of these is the state of Washington, with a State Board of 

 Forest Commissioners, a State Fire Warden and Forester, and 

 an army of deputy fire wardens, scattered throughout the state 



The forestry laws enacted in 1905 outline the duties of the 

 Board of Forest Commissioners as follows : ' ' The state board of 

 forest commissioners shall supervise all matters of state forest 



