Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1901 — To Protect Shade Trees. [ARTICLE]

To Protect Shade Trees.

Secretary Freeman, of the state board of forestry, is at work on a law that will be presented to the legislature at its next meeting. The law contemplates the protection of the shade trees in cities of the state that are not governed under separate charter. For the latter Mr. Freeman expects to present the law in such a way that the city councils will take action in the matter and order its adoption and enforcement. The law will obligatory for a property owner to plant and maintain shade trees in front of his real estate. If the property owner fails to conform to the provisions of the law the statute will provide the city officials with power of enforcement by declaring that the city or town shall plant and maintain the trees and charge the property owner as the corporation government would charge him with street or sewer improvements.