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be undertaken by such an organization as is here proposed, in 

 cooperation with all other forest agencies, so that work being 

 done throughout the country along these lines may, at least, have 

 a uniform value. 



The proposal contemplates carrying on cooperative work on a 

 very extensive scale, and the Advisory Board has been selected 

 so that every forestry organization and agency in the country is 

 represented, not only with the idea of securing a general repre- 

 sentation throughout the Dominion, but also with the idea of 

 stimulating the cooperative work. A considerable responsibility 

 is, of course, placed on the executive of the Advisory Board, 

 but none of the members of this executive are regularly employed 

 by the Forestry Branch and all have other duties which occupy 

 the greater part of their time, so that it is hoped that the various 

 cooperators, and especially the various members of the Advisory 

 Board who are connected with other large forest organizations, 

 will be active in preparing detailed plans for forest investiga- 

 tions needed in various portions of the country to be submitted 

 for the consideration of the executive. 



The Forestry Branch is assured of the funds necessary for 

 carrying out work of this character at least on a scale commen- 

 surate with the importance given to such work in the forest 

 organization of other countries, and the success of the work 

 depends, first, upon the ability of the Chief of Investigations, 

 who has not yet been selected, and secondly, upon the spirit of 

 cooperation shown by the various other forest organizations in 

 the country who are directly interested in work of this character. 

 In this connection I might say that the Forestry Branch looks 

 to the Province of British Columbia for very material cooperative 

 assistance, for the reason that it is recognized that British Colum- 

 bia has already gone farther in work of this nature than any 

 other provincial forest organization in Canada, and although 

 the interest of the Dominion Forestry Branch is perhaps less 

 in British Columbia than it is in some of the other western 

 provinces where there is a great deal more territory under its 

 charge, nevertheless its British Columbia interest is sufficient 

 to make the Branch very desirous of organizing its investigative 

 work in British Columbia in close cooperation with the Provincial 

 Forest Service. 



