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Identifier: annualreport131415190newy (find matches)
Title: Annual report
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Forest, Fish and Game Commission
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)
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he past season that by accidentwe may have hit on a system of fire protection intermediate between thetown system and that carried out in the Adirondack Preserve, that in largesections of the State might be used to advantage in the prevention of forestfires. One man of the right stamp and training in a county containing muchwoodland, to organize the forces working for fire protection and keep themup to tone, is a measure involving but little expense and promising, fromexperience, to furnish a large degree of immunity, even in sections havinga large proportion of forests. When, as is hoped may soon be the case,young men are being yearly turned out of a New York State forest school,one form of useful employment for them may be in the shape of countyforesters. Lastly, every forward movement interests more of the public, andevery means of creating an appreciation of forest values and of individualresponsibility in regard to forest fires, is an advance in the line of betterfire protection.
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* 0*^0* no*> „o*> „o FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSIONER. 187 Statistics of Forest Products The Forest, Fish and Game Commission has annually, from 1905 on,compiled statistics of the lumber and other forest products of the Statethat are perhaps more accurate and complete than those of any otherState in the Union. Besides being printed in the annual report of the Com-mission these statistics are also utilized by the United States Census Bureau. New York in the year 1908 stood nineteenth among the States inpoint of lumber production, having fallen in position relatively to otherStates for many years. It is possible, too, that the year 1908 marks thebeginning of an absolute fall in production. This could not be safely in-ferred from the comparison of the figures for 1907 and 1908, because 1907all over the country was a boom year. But the total product for 1908 wasmaterially lower than that for any of the three years preceding; productionof pulpwood was proportionately lower stil

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