REVIEWS 



Tenth Annual Report, Commission of Conservation of Canada. 

 Ottawa, 1919, pp. 378. 



The Commission of Conservation of Canada is a purely investigative 

 and advisory body, having no executive or administrative functions 

 whatever. It is interesting to note that this commission was an out- 

 come of the great conservation movement, headed by President Roose- 

 velt, which brought about the conference of Governors at Washington 

 in 1908 and was followed by the North American conference shortly 

 after. It was the report of the Canadian delegates to this international 

 conference that determined the Government of Canada to establish a 

 Commission of Conservation. This commission has persisted, though 

 the National Conservation Commission of the United States fell by the 

 wayside. 



The tenth annual report of the commission comprises the proceed- 

 ings of the annual meeting held at Ottawa, February 17, 1919, and 

 embraces, for the most part, a review of developments along conserva- 

 tion lines during 1918, with recommendations. The discussions cover 

 such subjects as water-power, housing, town-planning, public health, 

 agriculture, fuel supplies, and forestry. 



The report is unusually rich in forestry material, containing reports 

 by Clyde Leavitt, Chief Forester of the Commission ; Dr. C. D. Howe, 

 in charge of forest research, and R. D. Craig, in charge of the investi- 

 gation of forest resources on the commission's forestry staff. 



The report of the Committee on Forests, by Mr. Leavitt, embraces a 

 review of the forestry situation during the previous year, with recom- 

 mendations for future action. The situation for each province is re- 

 viewed separately, as also with respect to the Dominion Government. 

 Very material progress has taken place, notwithstanding war condi- 

 tions, but only a beginning has yet been made toward the actual practice 

 of forestry. The ownership by the Dominion and provincial govern- 

 ments of the great bulk of the non-agricultural timberland throughout 

 Canada renders the situation very much more favorable for future 

 forestry practice than is the case in the United States, taken as a whole. 



Dr. Howe presents a preliminary report on the Quebec forest regen- 

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