The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-07-12
FOREST PROTECTION.
LAWS FORBlDDlN1 The DESTRUCTION
OF TIMBER IN EUROPE.


waite a. Well as Sntional and Communal
: Forcsts-Rcforcsting Carried on by Is
tablished Departments.
In Germany the various governments
own and manage, in Il conservative
spirit, about one.thir1 # the forest
area, and they also control the manage
lncnt of another .ixth, which belongs to
Villages. cities and public Institutions
in 20 tar Is these communities are
obliged to employ expert forasterN and
must submit their working plans to the
government Tor approval, thus prevent
| ing iiuproyident and waSteful methods.
The other half Of thu forest property,
| iii the hands Of private owners, Is man
aged mostly without interference, al
| though upon methods similar To those
employed - the government and by
trained fore,ters, who receive their cdu
| cation in one Of the eight higher and soy
eral lower schools Of forestry which the
various governments have established.
! The several states differ IN their laws
regarding forest property Of the pri-
waite forests - per cent are without any
control whatever, while 30 per cent are
subject 10 supervision. so far Il clearing
and devastation are concerned
The tendency on the part # the gov
eminent has been rather toward per>ua-
,ivc measures. Thus in addition To buy
ing up or acquiring by exchange and re-
furc,ting waste Handsome 300, 600
acre, have been 50 reforested during the
last % yedr,-thr government gives as
-stancc to private owners i'll rcforestinc
their waste land. During the last 10
years $500, 600 wa granted III this way.
IN Austria, by a law adopted i'll 1852,
not only are the state for '-t5-compris-
forest Internationally managed, and
the management Of the communal for
cstS-ncarly 10 per eent-oiliclally SUI
p'rviscd, but private o~ners-holdlng
about 80 per cent--are p.pycnted from
devastating their forest property to the
dctriment Of adioincrs No clearing for
agricultural use can be made without
the consent Of the district authorities,
from which, however. an appeal to
civil judge is possible, who adjusts the
conflict Of interests.
Nu,. ,.l.,,.J 81. cnt forest r,n.t bo re-.
plantcd on reseefed within five years.
ON sandy sell, and mountain sides clear
ina i. fn,bid,iar and o,.lvcnlline Of the
,;'7.. ti,,,t.. ,1lo,r.d
T., li,,,,,a,.,. al.a ,abera libortv of
,,,.i,.,t,. ,,r7,,.rtv rial,ts and stron6 oh.
;,..,f,,, r., ,,,,,.5,n,aa,,t intnrfaranca had
I..o, i,,lno.1,. nnbqld = eampIafe rpac.
+i,., .'.t i, s,,,,a / :, ,-l,,.. ~, v.bicb led
:, a.. 1.,,...fioao ,.i,;,., tla staff. con-
t,,l ,,f ,,,.;,..,to forcst ,,r,r,rtv as i'm Ans.
tj.
Tra,,.a law, ad,nted in Italv in 1855
th.. J,,,.rt,4,,,,t Of ay1ir.llturr. in coon.
,,i,l, tho a.na,.4,nont Of nnblir
,,.,,.l. aud IN co,,.,lt.ti,,, with the for.
o.tol c,,n,,,i,t,o nf the ,r,vinrn and tbo
,.,..,,,,ti,o owners i ia DESIGNATE the
+..,,i tony, ,cbicb for nnhlir reasons n,nst
I,,' ,at,,.a.,,I r,,dor o,e,.orn,noutol con.
tr,I
Tho owners may associate, themselve,
far H., ,,,,ro.o - rcforast,ti,,n and for
tho ,,,,nn.n r,.v tbnn bo,,o,v money at
lnv, ;,,tare.t FINN the STATE Soil Credit
institution tho forest denortucnt CON
,,i,.,.t;,,, tl,,oo. fftbs If rho cost of re-
f,,r..t,,ir, ,,,,,, condition tl.,t tbe y,orl,
!. 1nno ACCORDING Ia its ul.n,. and within
,l,o ti,,,,. y,,ocitied ,,v tho ,ysvo,umeut
T., PMS, until iat.lv liberty to cut
hr,,l dcstrnv and devastate was unra.
.t,;ctod hrt in tSSS a cnmnroheusivc
and we'll considered law cut off. so far
os tbis can ho done ON paper. this liberty
If vandalism Fo,, antocratic Russia
|thi. law il rather timid and is in the ma
t,ro If a comnrop,;se between comm
nal and n,iv,+a interests in which much
Ef ua+ oIl da,ands az, tho GOOD will Of
| lt,o nri,,,to owner
A federal law was adonted in Switzer.
hand in 1874 which gives tbe federation
control ovcr tbo forests of tbe mountain
| and parts of seven others, or over | 600,
| 600 acres of forest. The federation itself
| does not own any forest land, and the
| cantnnc handy Ion 900 acres somewhat