DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND FORESTS FOR 1936 



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several lectures have been given by the superintendents of all three nurseries, 

 to service clubs, etc., in their own communities. 



TABLE 2 

 Summary of Nursery Stock for Planting 1936 



TABLE 3 

 Permanent Plantations 



2. COUNTY FORESTS 



Planting was continued on all the county forests this year. The total 

 area planted covered 1,034 acres and the number of trees set out amounted 

 to 1,463,450. 



Additional land was purchased by the county of Simcoe, 165 acres being 

 added to the Orr Lake forest and 200 to the Hendrie forest. 



Insect outbreaks occurred on most of the forests, and though these were 

 not serious yet they were considerably worse than last year. Most of the 

 damage was caused by the jack pine sawfly which feeds on the needles of the 

 red pine, but will also attack jack, white and Scotch pine in the order named. 

 The number of trees sprayed as a control measure in each county forest is 

 shown in Table 3 under Insect Control. 



White pine weevil caused damage to plantations in two forests, Nor- 

 thumberland and Hendrie where 3,500 and 1,500 trees respectively were injured. 

 The leaders from these trees were removed and burned as a control measure. 



3. MUNICIPAL FORESTS 



This name is applied first to any municipally-owned tract of land con- 

 sisting of 50 acres or more which is under the supervision of the Forestry 

 Branch, for the purpose of improving existing woodland, protection and 

 conservation of water supply and soil erosion, and for recreational purposes, 

 or, second to any municipally-owned tract of land consisting of from 25 to 50 

 acres under management, one-quarter or more of which is woodland. 



