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OFFICE OF THE
STATE FORESTER,
SACRAMENTO, CAL.
December 2, 1907
STATE BOARD OF FORESTRY.
JAMES N. GILLETT, GOVERNOR
C. F. CURRY, Secretary of State
U. S. WEBB, Attorney-General
G. B. LULL, State Forester
Prof. Andrew C. Moore,
Editor, Alumni Record,
University of South Carolina,
Columbia, S. C.
Dear Sir:
I have your letter of November 21, requesting a copy of
the Forest Lav/ of California. I take pleasure in sending you a half
dozen copies, under separate cover.
Since you are contemplating a forest bill to be introduced
in your legislature, it would seem desirable to have it as perfect
as possible in the beginning. Our law is not as perfect as it might
be in its present form and I will give you my views as to what should
be incorporated in it to make it more efficient. In the first place,
the salaries of assistants are entirely too low. They should not be
less than $1600. per year. In the second place, the fire wardens are
asked to serve in a voluntary capacity without hope of payment from
any source, unless from the counties in which they operate. It
devolves upon the state Forester, or upon the fire wardens themselves,
to petition the supervisors of each county to make an appropriation
for the payment of the fire wardens. The counties look upon this as
an overburden, owing to the fact that in many cases it is the people
in other counties, in some cases those which do not require protection,
which benefit by the protection they pay for. This is always the case
where a mountain county is asked to protect a watershed which is used
largely by irrigationists' in a valley county below. It generally
happens that the mountain counties are sparsely settled and consequently
