ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO PRIVATE LAND FORESTRY 



1. Leadership training of farm boys and girls, involving one week of forestry 

 instruction to approximately 60 selected young people from Southern Ontario. 



2. Conducted tours at St. Williams, Orono, Midhurst and Kemptville Nurseries 

 and the Angus Seed Plant. Approximately 6281 school children were given 

 such tours. 



3. Collaboration in preparing and manning exhibits at the CNE, Ottawa, London, 

 Royal Winter Fair, International Ploughing match. 



4. Conducted Ontario's Centennial Tree Planting Program with the school 

 children. Participating in the program were 31,500 students from 850 schools 

 who planted 490,000 trees. 



Private Woodland Production Survey: In co-operation with the Dominion 

 Bureau of Statistics 6300 owners in 630 segments were enumerated mainly by 

 personal contact to determine the annual production from forest land. 



ESTIMATE OF FOREST PRODUCTS 

 FROM PRIVATE LANDS 



April 1, 1964 -March 31, 1965 



SILVICULTURE SECTION 

 Inventory Unit 



During the year under review, air photography of 17,950 square miles was 

 completed. Included were 6,612 square miles left over from the 1964 contract, 

 and 11,338 square miles of the 20,610 in the 1965 contract. In both years the 

 contractor was unable to complete the amounts of re-photography scheduled 

 because of adverse weather conditions. 



Inventory field work was carried out for the Blind River, Sault Ste. Marie, and 

 portions of the Sand Lake Management Units, in the Sault Ste. Marie District. 

 Three parties, using the wedge prism method of cruising, ground sampled 2,584 

 square miles. Photo interpretation, which involves the identification of species 

 composition, age, height, stocking, and site was completed for the field-work area. 



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