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orcstry journal 



Vol. IX. Ottawa, Canada, February 1913. No. 2 



CANADIAN FORESTRY JOURNAL, 



Published raonthly by the 



Canadian Forkstry Association, 



Canadian Building, 



Ottawa, Canadi. 



Devoted to the cause of forest conservation. 



Subscription $1 per year. 



Advertising Rates on Application. 



CONTENTS: Page. 



Forestry Movement 17 



Notes 18 



Annual Meeting C.F.A 19 



Canadian Lumbermen 's Assn 23 



Problem of Forestry: H. S. Graves .. 25 



Railway Fire Protection 28 



Cons^titution and By-lawf^, C.F.A 29 



With the Forest Engineers 'AO 



CANADIAN FORESTRY JOUR- 



NAL. 



At the annual meeting of the Can- 

 adian Forestry Association and sub- 

 sequent meeting of the Editorial 

 Committee it was decided to publish 

 the Journal as a monthly, begin- 

 ning with a sixteen page form. The 

 proceedings of the annual meeting 

 will be found in this issue 



THE NEXT CONVENTION. 



It has been decided to hold the 

 next Forestry Convention in the City 

 of Winnipeg in the latter part of 

 July. There will be a good program 

 dealing .particularly .with .prairie 

 problems, though the list of subjests 

 will not be confined to these. There 

 will be special railway rates which 

 will be announced later. Members 

 of the Canadian Forestry Associa- 

 tion and friends of forest conserva- 

 tion are requested to keep this time 

 in mind and if possible to attend. 

 Those who expect to attend or who 

 may be able to do so will greatly as- 

 sist in the work if they will write a 

 note to the Secretary, Canadian 

 Forestry Association Canadian 

 Building, Ottawa, to this effect. 



THE I'ORESTRY MOVEMENT. 



There never was a time in C'aiiada 

 when there was so much interest in 

 forest conservation by wise use as 

 there is to-day. At the same time 

 only a very small fraction of the 

 public has any idea of what true 

 conservation means. Constantly the 

 argument is heard that we cannot 

 afford to keep our forests unused for 

 the sake of posterity. Those who 

 know that conservation means the 

 best use of the forest now and in the 

 future must show, as Hon. Walter L. 

 Fisher pointed out at Washington 

 recently, that the movement does not 

 aim to lock up the forest resources 

 but that it is constructive and pro- 

 gressive, aiming at the immediate use 

 of such forest products as can now 

 be extracted profitably, and looking 

 forward to the highest utilization of 

 the lands, which though admirably 

 suited to forest growth are not suit- 

 ed to anything else. 



This is in line with the remarks 

 of Hon. George H. Perley at the ban- 

 (|uet of the Canadian Lumbermen's 

 Association, which will be found in 

 this issue. The public does not know 

 as yet that a large part of every coun- 

 try, and of Canada in particular, is 

 fitted only to grow trees and that de- 

 voted to that purpose it will produce 

 wealth for the whole nation ; while to 

 attempt to farm such areas or to leave 

 them to take care of themselves has 

 resulted and always will result in 

 })arrenne8S, waste, depopulation and 

 poverty. 



It is the privilege of every friend 

 of forest conservation to preach it as 

 an affirmative and progressive doc- 

 trine. To do this it is necessarv to 



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