Annual Report of the Forest, Fish and Game Commission of the State of New York, Issue 16

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New York Forest, Fish and Game Commission, 1911 - Fisheries
 

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Page 38 - ... use. Every person who shall, within the forest preserve counties of the state, cut or cause to be cut, or allow to be cut any coniferous trees for sale or other purposes, shall cut off or lop or cause to be cut off or lopped from the said trees, a^ the. time of cutting the said trees, all the limbs 01 branches thereof, unless the said trees be cut for sale and use with the branches thereon, or for use will/ the branches thereon.
Page 73 - May fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five. 4. Make rules for the prevention of forest fires and cause the same to be posted in all proper places throughout the state. 5. Prepare and distribute tracts giving information on the care and renewal of private woodlands, and with the approval of the superintendent of public instruction and the regents of the university, supply to schools, academies and colleges the means of instruction in forestry.
Page 73 - That the provisions of this act shall be enforced according to the method of procedure provided for the enforcement of the laws for the protection of fish and game.
Page 76 - ... act, and all laws directing or requiring the same, or in any manner relating thereto, and all other conveyances or certificates heretofore or hereafter executed or Issued by the Comptroller, shall be presumptive evidence of the regularity of all the said proceedings and matters hereinbefore recited, and shall be conclusive evidence thereof from and after the expiration of two years from the date of recordIng such other conveyances or of four years from and after the date of issuing such other...
Page 76 - Greene have been and are regularly, properly, duly and legally located, established and permanently marked upon the ground as shown by such report and map filed as herein provided, and it shall be conclusive evidence thereof from and after the expiration of one year from the date of such filing. § 2.
Page 23 - ... the native vegetation would appear to have retarded evaporation, but on the other hand this protection may have been counter-balanced by a still greater increase of evaporation from a luxurious foliage. On the whole, evaporation is probably preater now than before, and this increase is very likely greater in the southern part of the State than in the northern. With an undoubted augmentation of the run-off and with a probable increase in the amount of water evaporated, the general lowering of...
Page 133 - ... families, of which the most important in the number of species represented are the Catfish, the Sucker, the Minnow, the Herring, the Salmon, the Pike, the Mackerel, the Sunfish, the Weakfish, the Cod, and Flatfish families. The State is greatly diversified in contour and has an extensive water area. Its drainage systems are the Great Lakes, Lake Champlain, the St. Lawrence, the Ohio Basin, the Susquehanna, the Delaware, the Hudson, with such adjacent small streams as the Passaic, Hackensack,...
Page 206 - ... wild bird after it has been killed or caught; or who shall sell or have in his possession for sale any part of the plumage, skin, or body of any bird protected by the game laws; or who shall take or...
Page 175 - I have the honor to present the following report of my work surveying and mapping lands under water of the State of New York for shellfish culture, and preparing the necessary papers connected therewith, for the fiscal year ending October 1, 1911.
Page 181 - Ru'e 8, and if not paid within thirty days of the time when due, interest at the rate of six per cent per annum...

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