48-1: JOURNAL OF FORKSTKV 



cut in this territory, either pulp or paper in the proportion of ten tons 

 per day, or sawed timber in the proportion of ten thousand feet, board 

 measure, per day, per hundred square miles. 



There is legislation introduced in the legislature of New Brunswick 

 which, if passed, will give that province a most advanced position in 

 forest administration. 



Features of this legislation are : an unpaid advisory forest commis- 

 sion of five, under the chairmanship of the Minister of Lands and 

 Mines, with his deputy, the provincial forester, and two lumbermen ; 

 a forest service which takes over also the game and fishing interests 

 and exercises the forest police ; a technically trained forester, directly 

 under the Minister, with a staff selected by examinations ; a protection 

 fund of $30,000 and a tax of one-half cent per acre collected from tim- 

 ber-license holders ; this fund to be increased from other revenues to 

 $ioo.oco annually, unused portions to form a forest protection sinking 

 fund to be used for emergencies ; sheriff powers for all permanent 

 forest rangers. 



A separate bill provides for forest-fire protection with great detail 

 in not less than thirty-nine sections. Very careful detail prescriptions 

 regulate the setting of fires and providing safety by burning of slash. 

 All the experience in keeping railroad fires within bounds is embodied 

 in nine sections. Compulsory assistance in fight-fighting is provided 

 and suitable penalties for every infraction of the act. 



Although forest planting operations in Oregon and Washington will 

 be largely curtailed this spring because of. war conditions, nevertheless 

 the plans provided for planting on 1,732 acres, divided among five Na- 

 tional Forests, from 140 to 470 acres in each. The species planted will 

 be mainly Douglas fir and western white pine, grown at the Wind 

 River Nursery on the Columbia National Forest, and a smaller quan- 

 tity of western yellow pine grown at the Page Creek Nursery on the 

 Siskiyou National Forest. Only the best grade of stock in the nurse- 

 ries will be used. 



In the Crater National Forest an old yellow-pine burn grown up to 

 brush and unproductive is being restocked with yellow-pine seedlings 

 in the brush, which is so dense that the planters can only work down the 

 slopes. This planting is largely experimental, as the brush type of 

 land presents new and unsolved planting problems. 



So far, planting has been done in burns in the North Pacific Dis- 

 trict on 26,000 acres in Oregon and 8,000 acres in Washington. 



