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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



The Forestry Department of Laval 

 University, conducted by the Quebec 

 Government, has so far only turned out 

 men for the Government's own work, 

 which for sometime is likely to absorb 



its graduates. 



The Forestry Department of the 

 University of New Brunswick is doing 

 good work, and its graduates are mostly 

 taking private positions. 



The Dominion Railway Commission 

 through its Fire Protection Service has 

 done more to eliminate the greatest 

 source of fire danger, the railways, than 

 anyone would have believed possible. 

 The railroads have been responsible 

 for the burning of enormous tracts of 

 valuable timber lands, and until the 

 Railway Commission took up the mat- 

 ter the railways could not be compelled 

 to take any preventive measures. 



The Canadian Forestry Association 

 has been the most important agency in 

 the introduction and propaganda of for- 

 estry and has done most excellent work. 

 It receives a subsidy from both the 

 Dominion and Provincial Governments 

 and has been successful in obtaining 

 important legislation. It conducts the 

 Canadian Forestry Journal, published 

 monthly. 



The Canadian Society of Forest En- 

 gineers was organized in 1908 and has 

 now about fifty-five members. Its aim 

 is to foster closer relationship between 

 foresters, to keep up the standard of 

 the profession to the highest possible 

 plane and to help its members to 

 mutually benefit one another. 



The Society of British Columbia For- 

 esters has the same aims for the men 

 in the British Columbia Service. 



The Ottawa Foresters' Club does the 

 same thing for Dominion and other 

 foresters residing in Ottawa. 



The Commission of Conservation has 

 its forestry side and has done much 

 work already. Its publications on the 

 Poorest Resources of Nova Scotia and 

 its report on the Trent Watershed are 

 of high character and importance and 

 are an earnest of what may be expected. 



The St. Maurice Forest Protective 

 Association, formed in the spring of 

 1912, has been a revelation as to what 

 could be done toward fire-protection. 

 Formed by all the holders of freehold 

 and licensed lands in the St. Maurice 

 Valley of Quebec with 11,373 square 

 miles it has now grown to cover 13,535 

 square miles and really protects a much 

 larger area than this. 



The Lower Ottawa Forest Protective 

 Association was formed this spring by 

 the large lumber industries in the lower 

 Ottawa Valley and has already done 

 good work. 



The Canadian Pacific Railway has a 

 well-organized Forestry Department 

 and has done good work in tree plant- 

 ing for snow protection along its right- 

 of-way in the prairie Provinces and has 

 made a beginning in reconnaisance sur- 

 veys of its lands. 



The New Brunswick Railway Com- 

 pany is developing a system of fire pro- 

 tection along its right-of-way, beginning 

 by clearing up for fifty feet on each side 

 of the track. 



The Algoma Central and Hudson Bay 

 Railway has just engaged a Forester. 



Long Distance Fire Reporting. 



On the Deerlodge National Forest in Montana one lookout station has the record of 

 reporting accurately, by distance and direction, a fire that was sixty miles away. 



