Henderson Daily Dispatch

Department to acquire, so far as funds are available, forest areas which would be set aside as state demonstration forests. It carried an appropriation of $5,000 annually in addition to the regular forestry funds to be used in carrying out its ends.

Some of the activities it specifically directs the forestry division to do are:

1. To extend State forest fire prevention work to all counties needing State aid.

2. To cooperate with Federal and other public agencies in the reforestation lands and to advise landowners as to the best methods of growing, cutting and marketing pulp wood and timber.

4. To acquire small areas in different regions to be developed as demonstration forests.

5. To prepare and distribute educational material for the use of teachers and club leaders in the training of the younger generation in the wise use of forest resources.

6. County boards of commissioners are authorized to turn over to the Department of Conservation and Development forest lands which have been taken over by the counties for delinquent taxes, if adjudged suitable for state action forests.

7. County boards of commissioners are required to furnish lists of all forest properties acquired by tax sale which have remained unredeemed for as many as two years, whenever the State Forester requests them These lands may be purchased by the Department for the amount of taxes actually due, without addition of penalties.

8. Authorize the Department to purchase lands when no delinquent tax lands are reasonably available or suitable.

9. Funds for carrying out the act are to be included in the regular budget of the forestry division under the item "Forestry Management."

While the $5,000 appropriation is not regarded by the Department as sufficient to do all the things it would like to do, or even all the act directs, it will make possible a good start in the direction, Director Etheridge feels.

…This new law goes further toward conserving our forests and toward the acquisition of state forest lands than anything that has yet been enacted and shows that this past General Assembly sensed the dangers which are threatening our forest resources," he said.

Bellamy Law Big Advance In Forestry

Daily Dispatch Bureau at the Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh, April 20.-The North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development regards the forestry law, sponsored by State Senator Emmett H. Bellamy of New Hanover county and enacted by the recent General Assembly, as a long stride forward in the better care and protection of the State's forests and woodlands.

Director R. Bruce Etheridge today pointed out that it does much toward assuring the State of an adequate supply of pulpwood and timber in the future and gives the department much greater opportunity to look after the forest areas of the State.

The law inaugurates a definite policy and plan of cooperation of the forestry division with both private and public forest owners to increase the supply of the timber in the State through inspection, instruction and demonstration. It also enables the