STATE DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY
1411 Fidelity Building, Baltimore

Advisory Board of Forestry:
Ex-Officio Members:

Isaiah Bowman, President, J.H.U..... .... ....... ..Baltimore
Edward B. Mathews, State Geologist. ................ ..Baltimore
Appointed by the Governor (terms expire 1941)
John M. Nelson................................................. Baltimore
Bernard I. , Gonder....................................... Oakland
Mauldin Lum......................................................... Elkton
State Forester:
F. W. Besley

The Governor appoints three members, two of whom shall be inter-
ested in the advancement of forestry and one a practical lumberman,
who, with the President of Johns Hopkins University and the State
Geologist, shall constitute the Board.

The terms of those first appointed are until the first Monday in May,
1&24, and thereafter for two years from the first Monday in May.
Ch. 29,1922.

The Department of Forestry was created and organized to protect
and develop the valuable timber and tree products of the State, and to
carry on a campaign of education and to instruct counties, towns,
corporations and individuals as to the advantages and necessity of
protecting from fire and other enemies the timber lands of the State.
While the power of the Forestry Department rests with the Regents of
the University, acting through the Advisory Board, the detail work
is in the hands and under the management of the State Forester,
who is secretary of the Board, and all correspondence and inquiries
should be addressed to him at 1411 Fidelity Building, Baltimore.

Scientific Staff:
F. W. Besley, State Forester
Karl E. Pfeiffer, Assistant State Forester
Walter J. Quick, Jr., Assistant Forester

C. F. Winslow, Extension Forester. ............ .College Park
H. C. Buckingham, District Forester. ............... Cumberland
R. H. Hershberger, District Forester. ........................ Laurel
Nelson H. Fritz, District Forester.................... Salisbury

The State Forester has studied the timber interests of each of the
twenty-three counties in detail and the statistics and information
collected are available to those interested. He will cooperate with
counties, towns, corporations and individuals, in preparing plans for
the protection, management and replacement of trees, woodlots and
timber tracts under an agreement that the party obtaining such
assistance pay at least the field expenses of the man employed.

An important work of the Forester is to encourage methods of pre-
venting and extinguishing forest fires which annually destroy thou-
sands of dollars worth of young timber. For this purpose a forest
protection system has been established. The State is divided into
three districts, each in charge of a District Forester, assisted by nine
part-time District Forest Wardens and 641 Forest Wardens. There
is also a system of 32 lockout towers for detecting forest fires and 40
forest guards to respond promptly to fire calls. In remote sections
of the State, telephone lines are maintained for reporting forest fires
and 10 short wave radio stations have been established for communi-