SILVICULTURE SECTION 



Inventory Unit 



Capital Air Surveys Ltd. completed vertical aerial photography of 326 square 

 miles in the Districts of Lindsay and Tweed, which were not photographed in 

 1960. This contractor was also the successful tenderer for vertical aerial photog- 

 raphy of 27,880 square miles in the Cochrane and Kapuskasing Districts. As a 

 result of poor weather conditions, only 11,281 square miles were satisfactorily 

 completed, the remainder of the area will be photographed in 1962. 



Field work was completed on 6,086 square miles in the Parry Sound Dis- 

 trict and the Agreement Forests in the Southeastern Region. Five field parties 

 cruised the Loring, Georgian Bay, Parry Sound, Bracebridge, Burks Falls, and 

 Kearney Crown management units, the Conservation Authority Forests of the 

 South Nation, Napanee, Moira and Ganaraska, the County Forests of Leeds and 

 Grenville, Lanark, Lennox and Addington, Northumberland and Durham, Vic- 

 toria and Simcoe, the township forests of Marlborough, Torbolton and Galway. 

 These parties also covered the scattered Crown lands of this area, including the 

 nursery properties at Kemptville, Orono and Midhurst. 



Photo-interpretation was completed for 13,132 square miles in the Tweed, 

 Lindsay, and Parry Sound Districts and the Agreement Forests in the South- 



Scarification \o encourage yellow birch regeneration in Lindsay District. 



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