SILVICULTURAL OPERATIONS, 1971-72 



Acreage Crown 



Treated Lands 



REGENERATION 



Planting 



nursery stock 78,008 



container stock 9,947 



Seeding 22,161 



Modified harvest cut 27,5 1 7 



Scarification 21,936 



Seed trees 7,751 



Total Regeneration 167,320 



TENDING 



Hand Cleaning 16,170 



Herbicide spraying 24,3 1 1 



Thinning, improvement cuts 9,358 



Girdling, filling, 



poisoning 20,474 



Marking for improvement cuts . . . 2,393 



Pruning 4,392 



Fertilization 1,177 



Drainage — 



Total Tending 78,275 



TOTAL AREA TREATED 245,595 



Site preparation for 

 seeding, planting, or 



modified harvest cutting 57,796 



'Agreements under The Woodlands Improvement Act. 



Agreement 

 Forests 



♦W.I.A. 



Total 

 Acreage 



2,331 



63 

 25 

 10 



9,343 



110 



53 



89,682 

 9,947 



22,334 



27,595 



21,946 



7,751 



2,429 



9,506 



179,255 



9,794 



5,957 



94,026 



12,223 



1,157 



15,463 



2,961 



273,281 



61,914 



NURSERY PRODUCTION TARGET, 1971-2 



District 



Nursery 



Number 

 of Trees 



TOTAL 



80,507,000 



Tree Distribution, 1971-2. During the year, the ten 

 provincial nurseries distributed a total of 76,597,391 trees 

 - 15,666,207 for planting on private lands, 60,581,084 for 

 Crown lands and Agreement Forests, and 350,100 for 

 educational or scientific purposes. 



SILVICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT 



The prototype model of the Ontario Mark 11 planter, 

 designed and built for the Department for planting under 

 northern Ontario conditions, was successfully tested under 

 a range of site conditions. 



Initial tests were completed on a new multi-row, nursery 

 stock lifter designed by the Department. 



Work continued with the testing of commercially-built 

 silvicultural equipment under a joint Federal-Provincial 

 program. 



ADVISORY SERVICES SECTION 



The private land forestry program provides a free advisory 

 service to landowners on the planning and establishing of 

 plantations and the tending and marketing of forest crops. 

 Ultimately, the benefits of this management will be a 

 supply of quality products for wood-using industries. 



Advice and guidance is provided for specialized forest 

 crops such as maple syrup and Christmas trees and for other 

 management objectives such a wildlife habitat 

 improvement. 



Tours for school groups and others continued at the 

 forest tree nurseries and the Ontario Seed Tree Plant. 

 Departmental staff also conducted instructional tours for 

 landowners with agreements under The Woodlands 

 Improvement Act. 



Exhibits were prepared and manned at major exhibitions 

 and local fairs. 



Publications were revised and published to instruct 

 landowners in the essentials of private land forestry. 



During the year, 466 agreements under The Woodlands 

 Improvement Act were processed; these referred to 17,924 

 acres. The total number of agreements in effect on March 

 31, 1972, was 2,379, covering a total area of 128,727 acres. 



A total of 6,005 acres were added to the agreement 

 forest program under Section 2 of The Forestry Act. As of 

 March 31, 1972, 244,150 acres were under agreement with 

 the Minister for forestry management. 



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