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avoided. The crown lands comprise an area of over ten thousand 

 square miles, or approximately one-third the total area of the 

 province. 



The Canadian Commission of Conservation and the Depart- 

 ment of Lands of British Columbia have entered into a co-opera- 

 tive arrangement for a study of the forest conditions and forest 

 resources of British Columbia. Dr. H. N. Whitford has been 

 employed by the Commission of Conservation to begin the work 

 of collecting information along the above lines from all available 

 sources. The large amount of material which has been collected 

 by the British Columbia Forest Branch will be supplemented by 

 information to be secured from all other possible sources, in- 

 cluding the Forestry Branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway, 

 and statements by timber cruisers, limit holders, surveyors and 

 others. The Canadian Pacific Railway Forestry Branch has 

 collected much valuable information with regard to the forest 

 resources of the southern portion of British Columbia, and much 

 of this information is to be made available through a co-opera- 

 tive arrangement between the Commission of Conservation and 

 the authorities of the Canadian Pacific Railway. 



In the Prince Albert District of Northern Saskatchewan, a 

 similar study of forest conditions and forest resources is being 

 carried on for the Commission of Conservation by ^Ir. J, C. 

 Blumer. This part of the work is being conducted in co-operation 

 with the Dominion Forestry Branch. 



This work is part of a general study, which has been under- 

 taken by the Commission of Conservation, having for its object 

 the approximate determination of the amount of timber in each 

 of the various provinces of Canada. 



The 1913 International Forest Congress was held at Paris, 

 June 16 to 20, under the auspices of the Touring Club de France. 

 The honorar)' Presidents of the Congress were the following: 

 Clementel, Ministre de I'Agriculture ; Klotz, Ministre de ITn- 

 terieur et des Cultes ; Leon Berard, Sous-secretaire d'Etat des 

 Beaux-Arts. j\I. L. Dabat, Director General of the French 

 Waters and Forest Service, was honorary president of the Com- 

 mittee of Organization and M. H, Defert, Vice-President of the 

 Touring Club, was president of the Congress. The members at- 



