TIMBER SALES BRANCH 



RESOURCES INVENTORY SECTION 



Aerial photography was completed on 23,810 square miles 

 covering parts of the Cochrane, Swastika, Sudbury and 

 North Bay Districts in northern Ontario and parts of the 

 Kemptville, Tweed, Lindsay and Lake Simcoe Districts in 

 southern Ontario. 



Forest stand maps and tabulated inventory data were 

 completed on 11,325 square miles. These data covered the 

 Management Units of Greenhill Working Circles 1 and 2, 

 Ranger Lake, Chapleau Working Circles 2 and 3, Peshu, 

 Wenebegon, Abitibi Sault (part), Abitibi Smooth Rock 

 Falls (part), and Lake St. Joseph Working Circle 2. 

 Kakakiwibik Park and part of the Kapuskasing blowdown 

 area were also covered. 



The Multiplex machine was used to plot the contour and 

 form lines of one Provincial Park covering 4,608 acres. 



The photo processing unit produced 100,512 contract 

 prints, 1,983 mosaics, 3,920 enlargements, 1,023 

 diapositives, 1,1 19 copy negatives and 4,369 square feet of 

 reproposi lives. 



Gross Value of Photo Processing Production 



MANAGEMENT PLANNING SECTION 



The development of forest areas is based on management 

 fJans that provide detailed information about the volume 

 of annual cut, cutting methods, regeneration treatments, 

 road and camp locations, and other facts essential to 

 orderiy management. Detailed operating plans conform 

 with the management plans. 



Crown Management Units. The plans for these units are 

 prepared by Ministry staff. There are now 86 Units 

 comprising an area of 100,566 square miles with 76 

 management plans. 

 33 Standard Management Plans 



in force 

 25 Standard Plans being prepared for 



Ministerial Approval 

 18 Initial Management or Operating 



Plans in force 

 10 Management Units not under 



plans 



21,921 square miles 

 24,393 square miles 

 26,233 square miles 



28,019 square miles 



Company Management Units. The management plans for 

 these Units are prepared by the licensees. There are 57 

 Company Units with 89,985 square miles under licence to 



33,985 square miles 

 11,244 square miles 

 42,756 square miles 



38 companies. The status of management planning is as 



follows. 



29 Approved Management Plans 



1 1 Plans being processed for 



Ministerial Approval 

 17 Plans being revised or 



prepared 

 Agreement Forest Units. The management plans for 

 these units are prepared by Ministry staff. There are 60 

 units covering approximately 360 square miles or 230, 351 

 acres. The status of management planning is as follows. 

 20 Approved Standard Plans 103,397 acres 



13 Plans being processed for 



Ministerial Approval 40,108 acres 



27 Plans in process of 



preparation 86,846 acres 



ACCESS ROADS 



Road work was carried out under two categories. 



Logging Access Roads are primarily designed for the 

 extraction of timber products. The costs are recovered over 

 a five-year period through an increase in stumpage rates on 

 the timber which has been made accessible. 6.5 miles of 

 new roads were built, and 5.3 miles were improved. 



Forest Access Roads are built for a variety of purposes 

 such as timber extraction, forest improvement, forest 

 protection, hunting and fishing, and other forest uses. 

 108.0 miles of new roads were built, and 19.5 miles were 

 improved. 



TIMBER LICENSING SECTION 



The Section is concerned with the issuance and control of 

 timber licences which provide the authority for cutting 

 timber on Crown lands. 



On September 1, 1971, Crown stumpage rates were 

 reduced on all spruce and jack pine timber harvested north 

 of the north line of the Canadian National Railway. 



SCALING 



Mechanization and rapidly changing logging techniques 

 have brought about many new concepts in wood 

 measurement, the most promising of which is weight 

 scaling. Hardwood pulpwood, conifer pulpwood, sawlogs 

 and tree lengths are now being weight-scaled at several 

 locations throughout the Province. 



Scaling examinarions were held at Huntsville on May 14, 

 1971, and at North Bay on September 24, 1971. Forty-nine 

 new scalers were licensed at these two courses and 1,133 

 scaler licences were renewed for a three-year period. 



Standardized refresher courses for licensed scalers were 

 held in 10 different locations to maintain a high, uniform 

 standard and to keep scalers informed of the latest 

 techniques and procedures. Three hundred and sixteen 

 scalers attended these four-day courses. 



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