. American forestry. Forests and forestry. Spruce Roots Liid Bare by a Ground Fire Which Destroyed ihe Duff paid by the state to any one town was $1,459, against a total cost for fighting fire in the town of $i,6o8. While the state paid about ninety per cent of the cost to this mountain town, the total paid to these twenty towns was sixty-six per cent of the whole cost; while, of course, other towns which had but slight expense received no aid. The main thing necessary in regard to the fire problem is, therefore, to en- force the law which we already have. On entering ofifice I wrote to all of
. American forestry. Forests and forestry. Spruce Roots Liid Bare by a Ground Fire Which Destroyed ihe Duff paid by the state to any one town was $1,459, against a total cost for fighting fire in the town of $i,6o8. While the state paid about ninety per cent of the cost to this mountain town, the total paid to these twenty towns was sixty-six per cent of the whole cost; while, of course, other towns which had but slight expense received no aid. The main thing necessary in regard to the fire problem is, therefore, to en- force the law which we already have. On entering ofifice I wrote to all of the state attorneys (there is one for each county), calling their attention to the necessity of prosecuting ofifenders un- der the fire laws. Only one serious fire has been called to my attention this year. Evidence was at once secured by this ofifice and within three weeks the state's attorney for the county had se- cured a conviction, which resulted in the guilty party paying a fine of $io and cc-ts, amounting to $25 in all. 84 That state forestry work must for some time be largely educational is un- doubtedly the reason that it appeals to such a limited group of foresters. In- terest in the subject in Vermont had been so thoroughly aroused under the leadership of Professor Jones and the State Forestry Association that the field is much more encouraging than in a state like Connecticut, where interest is primarily in city affairs. As evidence of this greater interest, which is un- doubtedly, due partially to the general progress which forestry has made dur- ing five years, may be mentioned the fact that during my first six months in Connecticut not a single invitation for an address on forestry was received; while during a similar period in Ver- luont I have given eighteen addresses before farmers' granges, women's clubs, teachers' associations, librarians" con- ventions, church societies, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that m
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