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MAXV OF TJIE Si'KUCJv TRKKS HAVE BEEN SERIOUSLY INJUKIJJ P.V THIS ELAGUS 



AND ARE IN NEED OF CUTTING. 



to get spruce reproduction under the 

 hardwoods, especially where it looks as 

 if market conditions would not warrant 

 their being cut within the next fifty 

 years, the above system has resulted in 

 enough spruce being left to seed up the 

 woods, and to seed up the whole area if 

 the hardwoods should e\'er be cut. 



DIFFICULTIES OF THE WORK 



In tlie pure spruce slope type, which 

 is usually situated at higher elevation 

 than the mixed hardwoods with scath- 

 ing spruce, the wind must be taken into 

 consideration as well as the red rot and 

 the porcupine. 



The aim in this type is not only to 

 leave the trees that will earn a good 

 rate of interest in growth for the next 

 fifty years but to get spruce reproduc- 

 tion. It is impossible to leave individual 

 trees standing alone for the wind will 

 blow thcni over. The system linally 



worked out consisted of leaving groups 

 of seed trees distributed where possi- 

 ble, so that no part of the clear cut area 

 between the groups is over three or 

 four tree heights from a group. As 

 far as possible these groups were com- 

 posed of the type of trees that were left 

 in the mixed hardwoods and scattered 

 spruce type. 



The principal difficulty in getting this 

 kind of work done is not with the lead- 

 ing men of the Compan\-, ])ut with the 

 contractors, camp bosses and choppers. 

 The bosses even tried to fool the mark- 

 ers on several ditTerent occasions and 

 several of the groups of seed trees were 

 spoiled by roads being swamped 

 through them when the markers were 

 not there. It was almost imjwssible to 

 get the choppers to drop diseased trees 

 which were not worth removing from 

 the woods. In the Companv's camps 

 more effective work was done than in 

 the contractors' camps and some of the 



