DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND FORESTS FOR 1948 35 



DI\ISION OF FOREST PROTECTION 



Fire axd Hazard Conditions 



The 1947 fire season was marked b\' an abnormalK- low hazard in the spring 

 and earh" summer, a normal hazard during the latter part of the summer and 

 an unusualh' high hazard during the month of October. 



The number of fires which occurred, 1,393, is somewhat above the average 

 number of 1,144 for the past five years but the area burned over, 84,032 acres, is 

 well below the five >ear average of 93,139 acres. 



Fire ("ontrol Planning 



Progress in fire control planning during the year included the following 

 projects: — 



1. Installation of 25 additional fire weather stations. 



2. First Edition of a 'T'orest Protection Manual" was completed, printed, 

 and issued. 



3. First Edition of a "I'ire C^ontrol Planning Manual" was completed, 

 printed, and issued. 



4. The "Area Seen Survey" was continued with four men taking part. 

 Sixt>-nine towers were mapped in the following Districts: — Cochrane, 

 Sudbury, (liapleau, dogama and j~)art of Sault Ste. Marie. 



5. Introduction of the use of the portable tower for tower location work in 

 the Port Arthur District. 



Hazard Disposal 



No major hazard disposal projects were undertaken but some brush burning 

 along telephone lines and roads was carried out and supervision given to a con- 

 siderable amount of brush burning b\- settlers and woods operators along roads 

 and around camps, etc. 



Insect Control 



The Dominion Department of Agriculture continued to administer the 

 forest insect surve>- and to carr\- on investigative work in forest entomology 

 in the I*ro\ince during the past \ear. 



The spruce budworm infestation continued during the year, particularh" in 

 the vSioux Lookout, Cochrane and Kaj:)uskasing Districts and northern portion 

 of the Sault Ste. Marie District. 



Expenditures 



I he total e\i)eiidit uics on hre protection lor the \car, excluding the cost ot 

 -Administration and Air SciNice, was .|L91(). 124.26. The amount of fire tax 

 collected from woods (jperators was $456,443.81. .Miscellaneous revenue 

 amounted to $53,229.92. 



