. Economics of forestry [microform] : a reference book for students of political economy and professional and law students of forestry. Forêts et sylviculture; Politique forestière; Forest policy; Forests and forestry. METHODS OF FOREST POUCY. a65 Wherever elie supervision or interference with the free exercise of property rights exisU on the part of the state, it is not based on questions of supply, but of protection to threatened interests of some magnitude. In this respect, as we have seen, forest property assumes a peculiar position. The recognition of the fact that the removal of the prot
. Economics of forestry [microform] : a reference book for students of political economy and professional and law students of forestry. Forêts et sylviculture; Politique forestière; Forest policy; Forests and forestry. METHODS OF FOREST POUCY. a65 Wherever elie supervision or interference with the free exercise of property rights exisU on the part of the state, it is not based on questions of supply, but of protection to threatened interests of some magnitude. In this respect, as we have seen, forest property assumes a peculiar position. The recognition of the fact that the removal of the protecting forest cover may give rise to shift- tag sands and sand dunes, which may encroach and despoil larger areas beyond, is sufficient call for the exercise of the police functions of the itate to prevent such damage, if we admit the providen- tial character of such functions. The experience that the deforestation or even bad management of the forest cover, forest devas- tation, on mountain tops and hills, leads to exces> sive water stages, to destructive floods, filling channels, thereby impeding navigation and silting agricultural soils, damaging neighboring or dis- tant interests, again makes the exercise of the police function of the state, in the wider sense in which I have defined it, necessary in order to prevent the consequences of mismanagement of the protective forest cover in such particuku- situations. The sugar planter in Louisiana, whose crop is endangered or destroyed by overflows due to causes a thousand miles away, has a right to pro- tection through the government. The city mer-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Fernow, B. E. (Bernhard Eduard), 1851-1923. New York : T. Y. Crowell
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