Railroad fire map, 1913.

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Railroad fire map, 1913.

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This map of the Adirondack Forest and Adjoining Territory indicates the location and extent of fires caused by locomotives during the year 1913. The laws of 1912 (Chapter 444) gave the Conservation Commission power to create fire districts and to appoint forest rangers to oversee each district. District forest rangers were given the power to sub-divide their districts as the public interests required and to employ additional forest rangers as necessary to patrol these areas. Forest rangers were required to report to the district forest ranger every fire that started or burned within their assigned region. Rangers were required to report the cause of each fire, extent and character of the land damaged, and the means used for fighting the fire. With the continued use of coal burning engines, locomotives were blamed in 1913 for causing sixty fires in the Adirondacks that destroyed over two hundred acres.

1.75 cu. ft. (1 oversized map)

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New York (State). Conservation Commission

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Chapter 474 of the Laws of 1909 granted the Forest, Fish and Game Commission power to make rules for the prevention of forest fires. The lone commissioner who headed the agency was also empowered to divide lands in the forest preserve counties into fire districts and to appoint a superintendent of fires to oversee each district. Superintendents were in turn authorized to subdivide their districts into separate fire patrol districts and to employ fire patrolmen as the public interest demanded. Th...

New York (État). Dept. of Environmental Conservation

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CURRENT FUNCTIONS. The Department of Environmental Conservation is responsible for protecting and enhancing the State's natural resources. It carries out this responsibility by planning for and regulating disposal of solid and hazardous wastes, remediating hazardous-waste disposal sites, coordinating responses to hazardous-substance spill emergencies, and encouraging recycling of solid wastes; reducing air contamination and regulating emissions; controlling and managing ...