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may furnish material to provincial and private forest administra- 

 tions that are in a position to do work of this character. 



New Efficiency Methods Essential 



The way in which the Forestry Branch plans to undertake the 

 securing of the information about Canadian forests which is 

 recognized to be so vitally necessary for future progress in forest 

 organization in many sections of the country is through the or- 

 ganization of a new Branch under the Director of Forestry, to 

 be known as the Office of Forest Investigations, and to be placed 

 under a separate chief who will have direct charge of all work 

 of a technical character except that on the Forest Reserves. The 

 form which it is planned to give this Branch, and its relationship 

 to the rest of the Forestry Branch organization, may be best 

 understood from the report upon which this organization is 

 based. As regards the general scheme of organization the report 

 reads as follows : 



"To accomplish the most valuable results in work of this char- 

 acter the administration should consist of (1) a General Staff 

 or Advisory Board consisting of the best available experts in 

 the principal divisions of technical forestry, who shall act as a 

 planning and advisory committee to assist the Director; (3) a 

 chief executive officer, who shall be a technical forester with 

 both administrative and investigative talent responsible directly 

 to the Director; (3) a trained staff, which shall consist of spe- 

 cialists in each of the principal research departments responsible 

 to the Chief of Investigations, and (4) one or more independent 

 inspectors without executive authority, who shall report to both 

 the Director and the Advisory Board. 



This administration can best be accomplished by selecting the 

 Advisory Board from outside the Forestry Branch at present; 

 by appointing as Chief of Investigations the best Canadian for- 

 ester available ; by giving him charge over such technical branches 

 as are already established and such additional technical assist- 

 ants as can be secured, and by appointing temporarily whatever 

 trained collaborators are available to enable an immediate start 

 to be made, and to assist in the training of research officers for 

 the Research staff. 



