16 Forestry Quarterly 



Only a government with the duty to consider a long future, with 

 providential functions, can afford to do this. 



From the standpoint of the more or less immediate need of 

 inauguration such systematic forest management, we may classify 

 the Reserves into four or five classes. 



There are some Reserves, located near well populated districts, 

 whose natural supplies are already being heavily drawn upon, as 

 e. g. the Cypress Hills Reserves in Alberta and Saskatchewan, the 

 Pines and Nisbet Reserves in Saskatchewan, the Turtle Mountain 

 Reserve in Manitoba. Here, there should be immediately inaugu- 

 rated a well considered felling plan and a judicious reforestation 

 program. Under present methods of mere exploitation the virgin 

 supplies must be soon exhausted, unless adequate provision is made 

 at once for a new crop. 



Next, we have Reserves which, as yet, are but lightly drawn 

 upon, but which within the next decade promise to come into 

 market more fully, as the settlements come up to their boiuidaries 

 and the settlers' wood supplies are giving out. Such are the Duck 

 and Riding Mountain Reserves in Manitoba. Here, ever^^ oppor- 

 tunity for more careful study of the silvicultural problems should 

 be embraced, and a thorough preparation for technical manage- 

 ment should be begun now in anticipation of their coming fully 

 into market soon. 



Then there are a number of Reserves that were not set aside on 

 account of their timber, which was either used up, burned up, or 

 naturally absent, but on account of the unsuitability of the soil 

 for farm purposes and the possibility of using it for timber crops. 

 Such Reserves are the Sprucewoods Reserve in Manitoba, partly 

 wooded, and the JManitou Reserve in Saskatchewan, largely 

 without natural growth, and several other sand hill territories. 

 Here, planting operations should be begun at once, first trial 

 plantations with various species and methods, and, after experi- 

 ence has been gained, on a larger scale, with or without assistance, 

 by natural regeneration as the case may be. 



Lastly, there are extensive Reserves in the northern prairie 

 regions and in the Rocky Mountains which are as yet so far 

 removed from market as to place them last from the standpoint 

 of the need of technical management. Here the problems are 

 still mainly of administrative character: to prevent further 

 deterioration of the properties, especially by fire; to regulate the 



