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cording to definite plans and will observe and record the results with 

 a view to drawing conclusions as to silvicultural practice for the region, 

 so far as practicable. 



A party is now at work making a preliminary survey of the area set 

 aside for forestry purposes. A type map will be prepared, and detailed 

 studies will be made of volume and rate of growth, as well as of repro- 

 duction. It is hoped that scientific work of this character may be 

 carried on from year to year and extended to cover other investigations 

 appropriate to a regularly established forest experiment station. 



The party now at work at Petawawa is under the charge of D. W. 

 Lusk, who has been with the Dominion Forestry Branch for about three 

 years, previous to which he was employed by the Laurentide Company, 

 Limited, Grand Mere, Quebec. Mr. Lusk is assisted by four men, of • 

 whom two are returned soldiers. One of these, R. A. Courtnage, is 

 an undergraduate of the Faculty of Forestry at Toronto University, 

 who was a member of the Royal Flying Corps and was incapacitated 

 for further military service by virtue of injuries received in an accident 

 in England. 



The British Development Commission's Report for 191 5-16 shows 

 that the war has not entirely interrupted its work. Most of the appro- 

 priations were made to continue research and undertakings already 

 launched, excepting such as arise from the war, such as increase of 

 food supplies and provision of plants for forestation purposes. For 

 this last purpose a grant of $5,500 was made to the Commissioners of 

 Woods; also $4,250 for maintenance of the demonstration area in the 

 Forest of Dean. 



A very readable popular article, entitled Nature Warfare in Field 

 and Forest, by Ellen R. C. Webber, printed in Canadian Forestry Jour- 

 nal (June, 1917), gives an interesting account not of the enemies to 

 vegetation in the animal world, but of the friends, which help to keep 

 insect pests down and are often not recognized. Snakes, lizards, frogs, 

 toads, lady-bugs, bees, wasps, and bumble-bees, skunks, bats, and night- 

 hawks, owls, hawks, and other birds, especially the woodpecker, all 

 come into their own as friends of man. 



The controller of timber supplies of Great Britain has recently an- 

 nounced certain relaxations of restrictions on the import of timber 

 from North America which it is hoped will to some degree stimulate 

 the export of wood from this country. 



