. Annual report . ed for the season; and next spring the supplemen-tary work required will be prosecuted. Mr. Pettis contributes an article to this report on the scientific aspectsof the subject and on the protective work as carried out or planned. Highlands of the Hudson Forest Reservation The New York Legislature in the session of 1909 passed a bill which,in effect, creates a district in which the perpetuation and improvement ofthe forest growth is declared to be of public importance; and in which pro-vision is made for promoting this purpose by providing for a residentforester, and extendin
. Annual report . ed for the season; and next spring the supplemen-tary work required will be prosecuted. Mr. Pettis contributes an article to this report on the scientific aspectsof the subject and on the protective work as carried out or planned. Highlands of the Hudson Forest Reservation The New York Legislature in the session of 1909 passed a bill which,in effect, creates a district in which the perpetuation and improvement ofthe forest growth is declared to be of public importance; and in which pro-vision is made for promoting this purpose by providing for a residentforester, and extending over the reservation in general terms, certain pro-tective and regulative principles. This law is something of a novelty inAmerican forest legislation. It attempts to secure an end, declared tobe of public importance, through regulation of the owner in the use of hisown land. In this respect, it is entirely in line with the practice of oldercountries; and, without doubt, similar regulation will, in time, have to. W. T. Howell, Photo. FORESTS IN THE HIGHLAND RESERVATION. THE LIGHT PATCH IN THE CENTRE SHOWS CLEAR CUTTING.
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