made under the Dominion Veterans' Land Act, which may be terminated during 

 the next succeeding fiscal year, only 13 transactions were concluded. 



The graphs and tables forming part of this Section show the total number 

 of all sales, assignments and cancellations made, and leases, licences of occupation 

 and land use permits issued. 



The following table shows the area patented under The Public Lands Act 

 and the area returned to the Crown. 



Acres 



Acres 



Area patented 

 (including Quit 

 Claim Patents) 



22,915.0757 



Total 22,915.0757 



Area returned by cancellation of sales 11,089.620 



Area returned by forfeiture under The 



Provincial Land Tax Act 16,459.113 



Area purchased by the Department of 



Public Works 1,671.560 



Total 29,220.293 



LAND USE PLANNING SECTION 



Introduction 



Land use planning in the Department of Lands and Forests has as its 

 objective the making of plans for the best possible management of all the 

 renewable natural resources of the Province of Ontario for which the Department 

 is responsible, and seeing that these plans are integrated. Since the Ontario 

 Government is committed to a policy of "Multiple Resource Use", land use 

 planning is of paramount importance to all those who have the responsibility for 

 natural resource management so that no part of the programme will be overlooked. 



This branch maintains a close liaison both in the field and at head office 

 with other departments of government in its planning programme. 



Land Use Planning Guide 



During the year a guide for land use planning in the districts was formulated 

 for the purpose of setting out in general terms the requirements in land use 

 planning. The Guide is intended to provide the districts with a basic framework 

 upon which to build the land use plan regardless of the stage of their planning. 



This work entailed visits on the part of the Supervisor of the Land Use 

 Planning Section to all twenty-two districts in the Province at least once, and 

 to some of them more than once, to discuss the preparation of the land use plan 

 with the District Forester and his supervisors. 



Co-operation With Research Branch 



Wherever the information is available the districts are using a site classifica- 

 tion, evolved by the Site Section of the Research Branch, as the technical 

 foundation for their land use plans. This classification is set out in some detail 

 in the report entitled "The Ecological Basis for Land-Use Planning" by G. A. 

 Hills. This has only been made possible by years of research put into this report 

 by the Site Section of the Research Branch. We are particularly fortunate in 

 thus having available a unique site classification which classifies the sites according 

 to use capabilities for the diff'erent natural resource uses. 



A very close liaison is maintained between the Land Use Planning Section 

 and the Site Section. 



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