SUMMARY BY TREATMENTS, 1964-65 



Stand Improvement Programme 

 (Acres of Crown Lands) 



Regular Junior Reform 



Treatment Programme Rangers Institutions Total 



Natural Regeneration 



Modified harvest cutting 1,047 1,047 



Seed tree marking 12,591 12,591 



Scarifying for natural regeneration 3,793 3,793 



Scarifying with cone scattering 5,529 5,529 



Sub-total, Natural Regeneration 22,960 22,960 



Forest Tending 



Release treatments: 



Hand cleaning 4,827 2,718 



Aerial herbicide spraying 8,553 



Ground herbicide spraying 175 



Thinning and Improvement Treatments: 



Cutting 838 29 



Girdling 3,428 



Frilling and poisoning 1,546 



Marking for improvement 6,456 



Pruning 3,289 78 



Deer habitat improvement 2,463 



Sub-total, Forest Tending 31,575 2,825 ' 1,132 35,532 



Grand Total 54,535 2,825 1,132 



Assessment Survey (four) 

 Regeneration Survey (eight) 



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AGREEMENT FORESTS 



Agreement Forests are those lands which are managed by the Department 

 on behalf of a County, Township, or Conservation Authority. 



Normal thinning, improvement, and salvage operation in the Agreement 

 Forests produced an estimated $135,000 in revenue. 



In order to increase productivity of these forests, and to provide local 

 employment, the following activities were carried out in Agreement Forests in 

 different districts. 



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