Report of the Department of Lands and Forests for fiscal year ending March 31, 1950 Page 150 



MANAGEMENT PLANS AND CONTROL 



Acting under the provisions of the Forest Management Act, 1947, the Minister 

 during the current fiscal year has requested all licensees holding cutting rights on 

 more than fifty square miles to furnish forest inventories and master plans, and thus 

 as at March 31st, 1950, sixty-nine companies holding an aggregate of 73,699 T 2 square 

 miles in timber licenses and concession areas are working to some degree under the 

 provisions of the Forest Management Act 



Twenty companies have now furnished plans covering an area of 14,770 square 

 miles. Analysis of these plans is under way. 



The field staff in timber management has been augmented by the placing of 

 foresters and assistants in four districts whose immediate duties have been aimed 

 towards the organization of management units and the maintenance of the forest 

 inventory where it has already been completed. 



Control of forest operations has been extended by additional field inspections 

 and the extension of requirements under the Forest Management Act. New timber 

 sales are under closer inspection and as management units become operative, sales 

 are restricted to cutting under the management plan. 



^rndex of- JableS 



51. Sault Ste. Marie - - - 160 

 5m. Sioux Lookout - - 161 



Table No. Page 



1. Status of timber licensed areas - - - - - - - - - -151 



2. Area under pulpwood and timber agreement - - - - - -151 



3. Mills license --------------- 151 



4. Statements of amounts of timber cu;t during the year ending 

 March 31, 1949 --------------- 152 



5. Classification of annual timber returns for year ending 

 March 31, 1949, by districts ----------- 153 



5. Algonquin ----- 152 5i. Parry Sound - - - - 158 



5a. Chapleau ----- 153 5j. Port Arthur - - - - 159 



5b. Cochrane ----- 154 sk. Quinte ------ 159 



5c. Fort Frances - - - - 154 



5d. Geraldton ----- 155 



5e. Gogama ----- 155 



5f. Kapuskasing - - - - 157 Sn - Sudbury - - - - 161 



Sg. Kenora ----- 157 5o. Swastika ----- 162 



5h. North Bay - - - - 158 5p. Trent ------ 164 



6.. Timber areas sold during the y*ear ending March 31, 1950 - - 165 



FOREST RESOURCES INVENTORY 



The forest resources inventory project was started in 1946. Photography com- 

 pleted during the current year amounted to 19,036 square miles under contract and 

 10.364 square miles by the Department making a total area photographed during 

 the year of 29,400 square miles. 



Mapping completed during the year amounted to 22.608 square miles under 

 contract and 15,120 square miles by the Department making a total area mapped of 

 37,728 square miles. 



Field work was completed on a total of 17,655 square miles. 



Total work accomplished to the end of the fiscal year amounted to: 



Photography 148,111 square miles 



Mapping 118,810 square miles 



Completed Field Work 36.120 square miles 



