Hunters and smokers are cautioned against allowing fires to originate from the use of firearms, cigars and pipes. Especial care should be taken that lighted matches are extinguished before throwing them down. All persons are warned that they will be held responsible for any damage or injury to the forest which may result from their carelessness or neglect. Girdling and peeling bark from standing trees on state land is prohibited. Fallen timber only may be used for firewood. All citizens are requested to report immediately any cases which may come to their knowledge of injury to woodlands arising from a violation of these rules. Then follow quotations from the laws of the state of New York. ] [Footnote 2: For the common methods of logging see _Handwork in Wood_, Chapter I.] [Footnote 3: See Summary of Report of the Commissioner of Corporations on the Lumber Industry. February 13, 1911. Washington, D. C.] [Footnote 4: A board foot is one foot square and one inch thick.] [Footnote 5: 167 cubic feet equal about 1000 board feet.] [Footnote 6: _Forestry Circular_, No. 97.] THE EXHAUSTION OF THE FOREST REFERENCES:[A] (1) Fires. Bruncken, pp. 183-207. Pinchot, _Agric. Yr. Bk._, p. 189. Suter, _For. Circ._ No. 36. U. S. Tenth Census, Vol. IX, p. 491 ff. Pinchot, _Primer_, pp. 77-88. Roth, _First Book_, pp. 104-112. Sterling, _Agric. Yr. Bk._, 1904, p. 133. (2) Destructive Lumbering. The Settler's Tradition. Bruncken, pp. 40-59, 94. Roth, _First Book_, pp. 41-45. Pinchot, _Primer_, II, p. 82. Taxation. _For. and Irr._, April, '06. Pinchot, _Agric. Yr. Bk._, 1898, p. 184. Reckless Practices. Pinchot, _Primer_ II, 42-47. Pinchot, _Agric. Yr. Bk._, 1898, p. 184. Pinchot, _For. Circ._, No. 25, p. 11. Price, _Agric. Yr. Bk._, 1902, p. 310. Fox, _For. Bull._, No. 34, p. 40. Peters, _Agric. Yr. Bk._, 1905, pp. 483-494. Graves, _Agric. Yr. Bk._, 1899, p. 415. Suter, _For. Bull._, 26, pp. 58, 69, 76. Mohr, _For. Bull._ No. 13, p. 61. Bruncken, pp. 90-98. The Timber Supply. Kellogg, _For. Circ._, No. 97 ... Zon, _For. Bull._, No. 83. Fernow, _Economics_, pp. 35-45. Report of the Commissioner of Corporations on the Lumber Industry. Part I, Feb. 13, 1911. [Footnote A: For general bibliography, see p. 4.] CHAPTER VIII. THE USE OF THE FOREST. Man's relation to the forest has not been entirely destructive and injurious. He has exerted and is more and more exerting influences which while still enabling him to use the forest, also preserve and improve it. These activities may all be included under the term Forestry.