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gregate amounts to a good deal, there is a large amount of pulp- 

 wood and a vast area of young growth which, if protected from 

 fire, will become of merchantable size while other resources are 

 becoming exhausted. The relative accessibility of a great deal of 

 this timber land to the new settlements in the Prairie Provinces 

 makes reservation and protection important. 



During 191 1, the Commission of Conservation took an active 

 interest in the establishment of the Rocky Mountains Forest Re- 

 serve, and assisted materially in securing the large addition which 

 increased the area of Dominion forest reserves from less than 

 3,000 to about 25,000 square miles. 



The Forestry Branch of the Dominion of Canada has followed 

 the example of the U. S. Forest Service in establishing a Wood 

 Products Laboratory in co-operation with McGill University. 

 The work will be in charge of A- G. Mclntire, chemical engineer 

 and editor of the Pulp and Paper Magazine of Canada, with ex- 

 perience in pulp and paper mills. 



British Columbia possesses one of the few great timber areas 

 of the world. While the countries of the far East have lost all 

 the timber they ever had ; while European nations are resorting 

 to the most intensive methods possible to secure continuity of 

 stand and a certainty of yield and are planting trees by hand over 

 great areas to ensure crops in the future ; while Eastern Canada 

 and the New England States are clamoring for lumber and view- 

 ing with alarm the rapidly diminishing supplies in their country. 

 British Columbia has a vast area of over 65 million acres of tim- 

 berland, which should produce, according to estimates of experts, 

 at least one hundred board feet per acre per annum, or a total of 

 6| billion feet. This would return to the Government over 6J 

 million dollars every year. The Province is the possessor of a 

 glorious heritage of over 300 billion feet of timber, which is quite 

 half of all that standing in the Dominion at the present time. At 

 the present rate of cutting, the loggers of the Province are taking 

 annually only one-fifth of the amount which is added by the nat- 

 ural processes of growth. 



According to the report of the Chief Forester of British Colum- 

 bia for the past year, over 70 per cent, of the fires which originated 



