ReportNew Hampshire Forestry and Recreation Commission, 1920 |
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acquired acreage addition amount Appalachian Mountain Club August 31 blister rust control blister rust disease brush cents per acre coöperation cost of fighting counties covered Crawford Notch crews cultivated currant currant and gooseberry destroyed disposal district chiefs ENDING AUGUST 31 expense feet fighting fires fire fighting fire prevention fire protection fire wardens forest fire forest land Forestry Commission Forestry Department Forests and Reservations funds Gale River gooseberry bushes Gorham growing timber Hampshire hardwoods highway improvement infected Lempster Livermore Falls located logging lookout stations Lost River Reservation lumber slash merchantable timber Moultonboro Mount Sunapee Mountain National Forest Norway Spruce number of fires nursery operators past pasture pine blister rust portable mills present private owners purchase railroad fires Reforestation Tract require road season South district spark arrester special patrol survey Table Timberland Owners tion total area towns White Mountain White Mountain National white pine white pine blister woodlands young pine
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Page 84 - That the General Court may provide for such special tax valuation of growing wood and timber upon such conditions and restrictions as will tend to prevent the premature cutting thereof, to assure a continuous supply of forest products and to protect the sources of our streams; and may also provide for taxation of the value of such growing wood and timber when cut at a special rate in excess of rates on other classes of property ; and for these purposes may define growing wood and timber and classify...
Page 13 - ... railroad deputy upon the discovery of a fire along the right of way, and to combat such fire until the railroad deputy or other railroad official shall assume charge. A. railroad deputy who receives notice of the existence of a fire adjacent to the right of way shall proceed forthwith to extinguish it. All just and proper expenses incurred in extinguishing forest or brush fires caused by the railroad company or its employees shall be paid by such railroad company; but the fact that such payment...
Page 84 - Now, that is the important part of this resolution. It is not the same old question that you had here a year ago last June. it is not the question that was presented to the people in 1912. It is an entirely different proposition : "upon such conditions and restrictions as will tend to prevent the premature cutting thereof." 1 ask this question of the lawyers, and if I am wrong about it I want to be righted. Can any legislature under the terms of that resolution, if it should be adopted, enact a law...