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Title: The New England magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: Boston : (New England Magazine Co.)
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id: Until a few years ago there was no pub-lic interest whatever in the subject and nopractical steps being taken. Foreseeing theimportance of the right kind of forestry de-velopment in a State where two-thirds ofthe acreage is at present growing trees ornothing, and where this proportion is boundto increase, a number of public-spiritedpersons started the Forestry Association.This Association has succeeded in creatingand directing the public sentiment favorableto forestry development in the State. It hassecured the enactment of fairly satisfac-tory laws concerning forest fires and fire-wardens. It has secured the appointmentof a Forestry Commissioner, who is one ofthe members of the State Board of Agri-culture, the first incumbent being Hon.Ernest Hitchcock, of Pittsford; the presentone being Hon. Arthur M. Vaughan, ofRandolph, Vermont. The chief duty of theCommissioner is to administer the State firelaws; second, to direct the educational cam-paign which is carried on largely through
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WHATS THE MATTER WITH VERMONT? 15 the Board of Agriculture meetings. Finally,and most important, the Forestry Associa-tion secured the passage by the last Legisla-ture of a small appropriation, to be con-tinued annually for five years, to the Agri-cultural Experiment-station for the main-tenance of a State Nursery. This nurseryis to grow and distribute at — as near ascan be computed — the actual cost of pro-duction such seedlings of forest trees as itconsiders best suited for reforestation inthis State. The Station and the State For- There is no regularly appointed StateForester in Vermont as yet, the responsi-bility for the leadership in this work restingwith the Botanical Department of the Uni-versity, and a non-resident forestry expert(Mr. C. R. Pettis, New York State For-ester, who is in charge of the New Yorkwork in the Adirondacks) is employed asconsulting Forester. It is hoped that wemay be able very soon to employ a StateForester to carry on the educational andexperimental

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