FORESTRY SURVEY 257 



Waltham Township (Map II). 



The surface of this township is composed almost exclus- 

 ivelY of soils of the prairie type, the one exception being 

 in the southwest corner where in Sections 29, 30, 31 and 

 32 some 680 acres of upland timber soil are associated with 

 Pecumsougan Creek. Only a small portion, estimated at 

 20 acres, now remains in forest. This estimate is made on 

 quite insufficient data and the area must be visited again 

 before making a final report. 



Wallace Township (Map III l 



Wallace township includes the 27 western sections of 

 Township 34 Xorth. Range 3 East, and with the exception 

 of some 50 acres in Section 35 is entirely covered with 

 prairie soils. Less than half of this potential forest area 

 is now covered with an open mixed forest. 



Tkot Grove Township (Map II). 



The western half of this township is similar in its sur- 

 face characteristics to those already discussed, being 

 slightly rolling, entirely covered with upland prairie soils 

 with brown silt loam constituting over 90 per cent of the 

 surface, and with the various branches of Spring Creek 

 slightly entrenched providing for its drainage by their 

 intermittent flow. It is quite without native forest cover- 

 ing and an acre of white poplar and Cottonwood in Section 

 7 I Map II, a I seems about the only attempt at i)lantiug 

 more than a row of trees. 



Through the eastern half of its area Vermilion Creek 

 has developed its valley in an expanse of upland timber 

 soil including all of Section 24, most of Sections 13, 25 

 and 35, the west half of Section 14 and smaller portions of 

 Sections 10 and 11. This timber soil is almost exclusively 

 of the yellow-grey silt loam type ( 1134 ) with a narrow 

 fringe of yellow silt loam immediately bordering the 

 stream. Its extent is slightly more than 2500 acres and 

 there is good evidence that it all was originally forested. 

 Four-fifths have been cleared and are now being cultivated 

 leaving about 500 acres still in forest. Much of this is veiy 

 open, constituting little more than a fringe along the 

 stream or a covering of the steeper slopes of its valley. 



