AGREEMENT FOREST ADMINISTRATION 



Under Section 2 of The Forestry Act, the Minister is authorized to enter into 

 agreement with the owners of lands that are suitable for forestry purposes for 

 the management of such lands and to make grants to any conservation authority 

 or to any municipality for the purpose of assisting it in the acquisition of lands 

 that are to be managed under such an agreement. Agreements have been made 

 with 22 conservation authorities, 24 counties, and 11 townships. Over 100 

 applications for approval of the Minister to acquire lands to be added to the 

 forest areas being managed under such agreements were processed during the 

 year resulting in 10,034 acres being added to the forest areas managed under such 

 agreements. A total of $123,931.49 in grants was paid to the conservation 

 authorities and municipalities to assist them with the acquisition of the lands. 

 $34,808.83 of this amount was paid from funds provided for projects approved 

 under the Agricultural Rehabilitation and Development Act. 



Trees Conservation 



Section 4 of The Trees Act empowers the council of a county of a munici- 

 pality in a territorial district to provide for the conservation of trees in woodlots 

 having an area of more than two acres, by passing by-laws (subject to approval 

 of the Minister of Lands and Forests) to restrict and regulate the destruction of 

 the trees by cutting, burning or other means. Tree Conservation by-laws have 

 been passed by the councils of 22 counties and 1 township as follows: 



Counties: 



Brant 



Bruce 



Dufferin 



Elgin 



Grey 



Haldimand 



Halton 



Hastings 



Huron 



TREE PRODUCTION UNIT 



In the current fiscal year, sufficient seed was sown at 10 forest tree nurseries 

 for the production of 62,500,000 units of nursery stock. 



NURSERY STOCK PRODUCTION TARGET 

 Species Number of Trees 



White Pine 9,375,000 



Red Pine 7,961,000 



Jack Pine 11,202,000 



Scotch Pine 2,590,000 



White Spruce 19,599,000 



Black Spruce 8,610,000 



Other species 3,163,000 



Total 62,500,000 



Tree seed was collected, processed, stored and distributed as required for 

 sowing in tree nurseries, for direct seeding operations and other purposes. The 

 inventory of forest tree seed in storage at the Ontario Tree Seed Plant at Angus, 

 as of June 1, 1964, was about 1,450,000,000 viable seeds, weighing 319,500 

 ounces or nearly 10 tons and valued at approximately $225,000.00. 



Larger amounts of seed are collected and stored in a good crop year, 



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