Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-07
NEW FOREST LEGISLATION.
Various Laws Established ror NOUN
tain Pasture Provision, Forestry
Traininc etc.

| Il
! tain Pasture Provision, Forestry
! Training, etc
| Previous ~ June, 1910. when the law
! on tire State Forest Lands was pro-
muIgateG. Italian Forestry questions
| were regulated by the law OF 3oth
June. IS7I and some others OF less I'M
portancts The law Of 1877. with view
| to ensGrine tin Stability OF the soil Il
| good W:stee Svatcn. and, seconeafllN,
| good local sanitary conditions, forbade
| all decreasing and clearing OF forest
| soil subjecting to the Vincolo forestale
(forestrYr eigme) the woods and ianus
| denuded of trees on tile SUBMITS ana
slopes Of mountains, down 10 the
higher limit of the chestnut zone. as
| well as those that by their character
land position. might. II deforested or
cleared, become a public danger
| The law further instituted. in every
province. forestry committee pre-
sided over by the Project, 10 settle the
Ilules for forest cultivation, wood cut
tting and other delicate matters. But.
! in spite al these provisions, there was
reason IN lament an excessive and Ill
regulated decreasing, giving rise to
llandslips. devastating torrents and
floods, often producing serious CRISES
tin the economy of the mountain r.
eidns.
! The necessity for special remedial
measures was then apparent Some oil
these We're provided in the law 81 md
June 1914. "On the state Forest Do
main and the Protection and Eneour-
iagement of Forestry: others are con
tanned in two bills Goth November.
1900: the first on Notifications ri the
Forestry Law of 1877 and Provisions
flor Mountain Pastures and Agricul-
ture, the second of Forestry Train
hing
The main article of the law Of End
| June 1914 is the formation of state
| Forest administration as an indepen-
dent institute. TO provide for the eX-
tension of forest cultivation and the
trade in national forestry produce by
increasing the state forest property
and rendering it inalienable and by
the example of a good industrial
regime"
| The domain is formed: al Of State
! forests already declared inalienable;
b) OF State forests at present admins
| tered by the Finance Department; CO
of State lands held To be economically
only suited for forest cultivation: ID
of wooded lands purchased by the
| Forest Domain Institute or in any
way becoming the property of the
same; e. of treeless lands purchased or
appropriated by the same: II lands re-
| aftorested or To be reafforested. by
virtue of special laws, by the Depat-
ment of Public. Works. and that the
Agricultural Department shall think
fit TO incorporate in the Domain.
Woods and lands that thus come to
form part of it are inalienable. and
must be cultivated and utilized ac-
cording to a regular economic plan,
approved by the Minister of Agricul-
tue, Industry and Commerce.
Art. II of the law is especially in
lteresting. 1t authorizes the forestry
administration TO receive advances
and loans from the Land Credit or
AGRICULTURAL Credit Institutes and the
Savings Banks.
For the protection of forest cultiva-
ton. it is provided that the woods be-
longing to the Communes, the Prov
inces public institutions, corporations,
associations and limited liability So
cieties must be utilized as prescribed
by the forestry authority.
For reafforestation of severely dam
aged woods, the Department is autho-
lied to direct gratuitously the techni-
cal labor and to give prizes of form
80 to 100 francs per hectare.
Lands. bare or covered with bush or
grass, when they are scientifically re-
Iafforested by their owners or by con
sortiums of owners are exempted from
the land tax for Is years. if cultivated
Ia n e al
ted for the production of full grown
trees.
The central or local forestry author
lily further gives gratuitous assistance
Ito the forest cuitivators for the de-
fence of small mountain properties
and encourages the foundation of as
socia lions and consortiums of forest
proprietos.
The sum of SO million francs has
been assigned for the carrying out of
the law during the first five years: al
the end of which period the amounts
necessary each year will be inscribed
on the Agricultural Estimates.
To complete this fundamental law
the two bills above mentioned were
presented to the Chamber. BY the
first, provision is made for more sci
cntific system of Deserving the woods
land grazing lands and for the increase
of forest industries. Tie vincolo fore
lstale is modified in accordance WITH
the dictates of science and practical
Experience, and the provincial fores,
committee reorganized with the parti-
cipation of persons technically and le-
gally qualified. The criterium of the
chestnut zone, hitherto taken as the
e limit of the lands of the forestry
{ regime is consequently abolished
II Other provisions deal with the penal
q ties and the Cancellation institute foi
Ii Nantiors, .repllA