Forest Leaves Volume 11 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... maturing the first year, consisting of spirally arranged woody scales enlarged at the apex into an irregularly four-sided disc. Two triangular winged seeds are found enclosed. John W. Harshberger. The Present Status of Forestry Legislation. TN the last issue of Forest Leaves the text of _ two proposed laws (Acts 69 and 70) were given. Since that time both of these bills have been amended. Act 69, which provided for the establishment of auxiliary forest reserves, has had two important amendments. One which has been added to Section 3 gives the right, when lands are removed by the Commissioner of Forestry from auxiliary forest reserves, to recover from the owner, by the county and township by an appropriate action at law, the difference in the amount of tax which would have been paid by the owner under the prevailing rates which existed on similar lands in said county and the rate established for auxiliary forest reserve lands with costs of suit, and to be recoverable from the time when such lands were placed in the class of auxiliary forest reserves. The original Section 6, providing a penalty for the failure of the commissioners to classify the lands as auxiliary forest reserves, has been removed, and a new one inserted which gives the owner of the auxiliary forest reserves the right to remove trees which may be killed by fire, thrown or broken by the wind, or injured by other natural TRUNK OF THE "BIG CYPRESS." (TAXODIUM MUCRONATUM.) CHAPULTEPEC, CITY OF MEXICO, MEXICO. causes, and under the direction of the Commissioner of Forestry, make the necessary thinnings or remove undesirable trees, also remove under the same direction such timber as is necessary and essential for use upon the cleared lands of the owner for general...