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in the Lesser Slave lake country and the Porcupine Hills in Al- 

 berta. Two parties completed the delimitation of the boundary 

 of the Rocky Mountains Forest Reserve. Special investigations 

 were made into the question of reproduction following fires and 

 logging on the east slope, and the rate of growth of Douglas fir 

 in the coast district. 



During the year 438 fires were reported, of which 117 were 

 chargeable to railways, 115 to hunters and travellers, and 55 to 

 land-clearing operations. The protective service consisted of 129 

 fire rangers, an altogether insufficient number of the territory 

 involved. To the Forestry Branch falls the duty of protecting 

 from fire the Dominion lands as well as the forest reserves. 



The tree planting division at Indian Head supplied 3,300 appli- 

 cants with over 2,600,000 trees for prairie planting. Although 

 the station comprises some 67 acres of nursery, and 78 acres of 

 permanent plantations (on which growth measurements are made 

 regularly), it has been found necessary to open a new establish- 

 ment at Saskatoon. 



The report contains as appendices the individual reports of the 

 various officials, as also an account of a shipment of reindeer 

 from Newfoundland to Mackenzie river. J. H. W. 



Forest Conditions in the Rocky Mountains Forest Reserve. 

 By T. W. Dwight, M. F. Bulletin ^s, Dominion Forestry Branch. 

 Ottawa, Canada. 1913. Pp- 1-62. 



The Rocky Mountains Forest Reserve comprises some 11.6 

 million acres, lying between an altitude of approximately 4,000 

 and 7,000 feet (timber line) on the eastern slope of the Rocky 

 Mountains. The data for the present bulletin were gathered in 

 the southern portion of the reserve in the Crowsnest and Bow 

 River Forests. From data gathered there and from other sources 

 of information, the author estimates that not more than one- 

 fourth of the area of the Reserve is covered with mature timber. 

 The rest has been burned at various times, mostly within the past 

 fifty years, so that several age classes exist, areas covered with 

 second growth too small for saw timber and only occasionally 

 large enough for mine props or cordwood. The yield of the 

 approximately three million acres of mature timber is estimated 

 to run from 5.000 to 20,000 feet per acre. The timber trees are 



