Emphasis to date has been placed on devising uniform pro- 

 cedures tor the implementation of this amendment, as funds 

 for entering into shared-cost agreements with the occupiers 

 of private forest roads will not be available until the com- 

 mencement of the next fiscal year. 



Ten roads comprising 197 miles are presently designated 

 as public forest roads. 



SURVEYS SECTION 



ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES 



The main responsibilities discharged by the Subsection are 

 the custody of survey records and the distribution of re- 

 productions for sale and official use, and the distribution 

 and sale of maps and publications produced by the Depart- 

 ment as well as the maps produced by the Federal Depart- 

 ment of Energy, Mines and Resources, Ottawa. 



The quantity of map sheets distributed of the Provincial 

 Topographic Series, at the scale of one inch equals two 

 miles, more than doubled over the previous fiscal year. 

 Seven new First Edition sheets and one Second Edition sheet 

 were received for distribution. Forty-six new map sheets of 

 the National Topographic Series produced by the Surveys 

 and Mapping Branch of the Federal Government increased 

 the quantity of this series distributed by ten per cent over 

 the past year. 



Lake Temagami, North Bay Forest District. 



Maps of the Territorial Series again decreased in demand 

 due mainly to the availability of the additional larger-scaled 

 topographic sheets on the grid system as well as the substi- 

 tution of the free map brochure of Algonquin Provincial 

 Park for the two-mile-to-one-inch map. Number 47A, which 

 became out of print. 



The numbers of survey records, plans and field notes of 

 summer cottage lot subdivisions and retracement surveys 

 being recorded, catalogued and stored in the Survey Records 

 Library are also steadily increasing annually. 



The demand for reproductions of tracings showing the 

 survey fabric of the interior of Townships, Crown summer 

 cottage lot subdivisions, retracement surveys, area plans on 

 the Forest Resources Inventory grid system and surveyors' 

 field notes of surveys made on Crown lands, by the contact 

 dry process and photostat methods as well as map mounting 

 requirements for all Branch and District field office pur- 

 poses also contributed to the increased work load of this 

 year. 



CARTOGRAPHIC MAPPING 



PROVINCIAL TOPOGRAPHIC SERIES 



This series of maps at one-inch-to-two-mile scale continued 

 with the production of six additional maps and one revised 

 map sheet as follows: Batchawana, Wakomata Lake, Thessa- 

 lon, Sault Ste. Marie, Biscotasing and Bark Lake, with the 

 revised Cogama sheet being lithographed in four colours. 

 The Ontario Co-ordinate System Grid was introduced on 

 both the Biscotasing and Bark Lake sheets. 



TERRITORIAL MAPS 



Though total coverage of the province at one-inch-to-eight- 

 mile scale was accomplished with the completion of the 

 plate positives for Map 26, "Kenora Patricia Portion N.E.", 

 the map was withheld from printing pending the resolution 

 of the limits of Polar Bear Provincial Park. 



SPECIAL MAPPING 



At the request of Research Branch, Map 3269, "Vegetation 

 Patterns of the Hudson Bay Lowlands", was produced in five 

 colours. Measuring 40" x 50", the one-inch-to-ten mile map 

 portrays the delicate yet valuable vegetation vital to the 

 existence of wildlife in the area. 



Assistance to other branches and departments was also 

 given in the compilation and production of maps of urgent 

 or special nature. These included the preparation of basis 

 suitable for whiteprint reproduction of the Trent Watershed 

 land status maps at one inch to two miles, to indicate the 

 various classification of public lands as requested by the 



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