3. Marketing and Forest Economics: The activities of this Unit include 

 promotion of industrial expansion and assistance to firms in plant location 

 studies, mill licensing, publication of regional studies of timber availability 

 and of a directory of primary wood-using industries, analysis of economic 

 implications of choices of action, and compilation of forestry statistics. 



In addition to its administrative sections, there is the Forestry Study Unit, 

 which is a special group, established by the Minister in 1964, to examine the 

 management of the Province's forest resources and their utilization by forest 

 industries. 



Its activities for the period are reviewed below: 



FORESTRY STUDY UNIT 



The offices of the Forestry Study Unit were established at 454 University 

 Avenue early in the year. 



On July 1st, F. C. Robinson, R.P.F., replaced Gordon G. Cosens, R.P.F., 

 who resigned on account of ill health, on the staff of the Unit. On January 2nd, 

 D. W. Milne and Associates Limited, Consultants to the Woodworking Industry, 

 was employed to investigate and report on the sawmilling and allied industries of 

 the Province. Completion of the report was scheduled for October 31st, 1966. 



In June and early July the Director of Forestry Study Unit carried out a 

 study of forestry and forest industries in Sweden, Finland and Norway on which 

 a report was prepared and distributed in August entitled — "Forestry in 

 Scandinavia" (Sweden, Finland and Norway). Early in the year the Forestry 

 Study Unit, in association with the Advisory Committee to the Minister of Lands 

 and Forests, prepared and distributed through the Department a pamphlet entitled, 

 "Multiple Use of Forest and Related Lands" in which the multiple land use policy 

 of the Department is explained. 



During the fall and winter months of the year public meetings were held 

 at various points throughout the Province in the following order, — Port Arthur, 

 Fort Frances, Kenora, Dryden, Sioux Lookout, North Bay, Sault Ste. Marie, 

 Kirkland Lake, Cochrane, Kapuskasing and Hearst. Meetings were scheduled for 

 Pembroke, Tweed, Smith's Falls, Chapleau and Wawa, — June 1st, 1966 was set 

 for the conclusion of public hearings. The very satisfactory attendance and the 

 wide interest shown in the discussions at the public hearings, along with the 

 inspections of local plants and discussions with local operators led to an extension 

 of the time devoted to this phase of the work. 



During the year, 42 briefs were received and a great many consultations 

 held with operators, forestry groups and industrial groups and associations. At all 

 public and most group meetings full verbatim notes were recorded for future more 

 complete analysis. 



Mr. Lome Adamson, of the Timber Branch of the Department, has acted 

 throughout as Recording Secretary of the Forestry Study Unit. 



REFORESTATION SECTION 

 Tree Production and Distribution Unit 



Tree Production: In the current fiscal year, sufficient seed was sown at the 

 10 forest tree nurseries for the production of 63,804,000 units of planting stock. 



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