. Conservation. Forests and forestry. Result of Fire Protection Commenced in 1890, and Seed Felling Made in 1894, Five to Ten Pine Seed Trees Are Left on Each Acre to supervise the work of the town wardens, instruct them in their duties and weed out incompetent wardens a sound basis is laid for fire protection of woodlands. But no force of fire wardens, how- ever good, can prevent fires if neither the owners of forest lands nor the resi- dents of the locality desire protection. If fires are constantly being set, and the wardens' duty is merely to extinguish them, the expense would be prohibiti
. Conservation. Forests and forestry. Result of Fire Protection Commenced in 1890, and Seed Felling Made in 1894, Five to Ten Pine Seed Trees Are Left on Each Acre to supervise the work of the town wardens, instruct them in their duties and weed out incompetent wardens a sound basis is laid for fire protection of woodlands. But no force of fire wardens, how- ever good, can prevent fires if neither the owners of forest lands nor the resi- dents of the locality desire protection. If fires are constantly being set, and the wardens' duty is merely to extinguish them, the expense would be prohibitive. Prevention of fire is the cheapest meth- od, and this can be accomplished by education of the public to the damage done by small as well as large fires, by punishment of ofifenders, and, when possible, by providing for patrol during the dry times by the wardens or depu- ties. Large owners can supplement the work of town wardens by using their employees as a fire patrol, and state 474 laws should provide for the appoint- ment of such persons as fire wardens. The progress already made in some states under proper laws is such as to encourage the belief that complete fire protection may, in time, be secured wherever an honest effort is made along the right lines. In the matter of tax reform for the encouragement of private forestry, lit- tle progress has been made. Many laws have been passed providing for some form of bounty, rebate or exemption on plantations of timber trees. Some have been declared unconstitutional, while others have not been taken ad- vantage of. A more general reform is needed. As long as timber is looked upon as real estate it will be overtaxed. Virgin timber which has cost the owner no effort to produce it may with some reason be assessed on the basis of realty, but where woods are grown as. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illust
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