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The lack of personnel to carry on investigative work, due to enlist- 

 ments, has hampered development, yet progress has been made by 

 the inauguration of the ' New Brunswick survey, by the proposed 

 reorganization of the Ontario fire control service, by the market exten- 

 sion work of the British Columbia Forest Service. 



The war against the pine blister disease came in for attention, 

 and an appropriation of $50,000 for its continuance was recom- 

 mended. ' The report on the British Columbia forest resources, by 

 Dr. H. N. Whitford and R. D. Craig, was announced to have nearly 

 reached its completion, and a continuance of this stock-taking in 

 Ontario and Quebec, with special first reference to pulpwood supplies, 

 was announced, and a study of reproduction .on cut-over lands was 

 recommended. 



A very successful forest conservation conference, the first of its 

 kind to be held in Canada, met in Montreal on February 1 and 2, 

 under the auspices of the Lower Ottawa and St. Maurice Forest 

 Protection Associations. The purpose of this conference was to bring 

 together all parties interested in the protection of timberlands for 

 the exchange of experiences and discussion of plans for improvement 

 of methods. Delegates were present not only from most of the 

 eastern Canadian Provinces, but also from a considerable number of 

 the States. These latter included Mr. E. T. Allen, forester for the 

 Western Forestry and Conservation Association, and Mr. Howard, 

 of the State of New York. Two sessions were held each day, covering 

 a very interesting program, which included not only methods of forest- 

 fire protection and the operation of cooperative associations, but also 

 such subjects as protection against insects, white pine blister rust, 

 and the use of various forms of mechanical equipment in forest 

 protection activities. 



The Conservationist is the title of a new monthly, published by 

 the New. York State Conservation Commission, the first number of 

 which was issued in January in a neat, well-papered, well-printed, 

 and well-illuslrated issue of sixteen pages. The Conservation Com- 

 missioner himself opens the ball with a discussion on public policy in 

 relation to forest lands, from which we learn that the park idea is 

 bound to prevail. A good argument for this attitude is found in the 

 statistics of tourist travel as exhibited in a canvass of the year 1903, 



