Canadian Forestry Association. 



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MR. WM. POWER, M.P., 

 Vice-Pres. Canadian Forestry Assn. 



no longer continue in those offices, and 

 suggestions were made as to how this work 

 might be handled temporarily. The advisa- 

 bility of securing assistance to carry out 

 the Winnipeg Convention was also sug- 

 gested. 



These reports were 

 dealt with. 



duly received and 



Log Rule and Fike Legislation. 



Dr. B. E. Fernow (the chairman in each 

 case presented the reports of the committees 

 on uniform log rule an«l forest fire legis- 

 lation. 



In regard to the first, the desirability and 

 difficulty of introducing a uniform log rule 

 to take the place of the five different log 

 rules in me in Canada were fet out. The 

 nee<l of a uniform unit of measurement 

 for forestry purposes, i.e., for the purpose 

 of studying rate and amount of produc- 

 tion of wood material, was state<l. For this 

 purpose nothing Has so good as the cubic 

 foot or cubic meter. The only way to bring 

 this about would be to approach the several 

 provinces to see if by conference of those 

 interested one rule might be adopted. No 

 effort to this end ha<l been made by the 

 committee. When such a change was con- 

 templated, however, it would be well to 

 press at once for the adoption of the cubic 

 foot or the cubic meter as the standard 

 measure. 



The report on fire protection showed that 

 gratifying progress had been made during 

 the year. Particular attention was drawn 

 to the issue of a most comprehensive order 

 (No. 16570) by the Board of Railway Com- 

 missioners of Canada regarding fire protec- 

 tion along railway lines. This action was 

 taken after a number of public hearings in 

 which the different bodies interested in for- 

 est protection, including the Canadian For- 

 estry Association, were represented. The 

 chairman of the committee (Dr. Fernow) 

 had been asked to formulate the plans on 

 which the order was based. As a result of 

 this Mr. Clyde Leavitt, Forester for the Com- 

 mission of Conservation, had been made 

 Chief Fire Inspector for the Board of Rail- 

 way Commissioners, and had organized the 

 work so that all the railways in the western 

 half of Canada were patrolled in 1912, and 

 it was expected that the railways in eastern 



'Canada would be patrolled in 1913. A 

 specially good feature of the organization 

 was that it linked up the work of the Rail- 

 way Commission with that of the Dominion 

 and Provincial Governments, the forest pro- 

 tective officers of these governments being 

 made local inspectors of the parts of the 

 railway lines coming within their jurisdic- 

 tion. It was stated that this legislation 

 was the most advanced of its kind on the 

 continent, covering under one authority 

 24,000 miles of railway lines. The report 

 also referred to experiments made in brush 

 disposal, particularly by lopping the tops, 

 and also to the extension of telephone lines 

 both under the Dominion Forestry Branch 

 and on private limits in eastern Canada. 

 Gratification was also expressed at the 

 formation of the St. Maurice Forest Pro- 



•tective Association as indicating the most 

 hopeful line of work yet inaugurated, and 

 one which the committee hoped would be 

 wi<lcly imitated. 



On motion of Dr. Fernow, seconded by 

 Mr. r*iche, the reports of the Connnittees 

 on Tniform Log Rules, and on Forest Fire 

 Legislation were received, the committees 

 continued and allowed to ameml their re- 

 jtorts before printing. 



Resolutions. 



Moved by Hon. Hewitt Bostock, seconded 

 by Hon. Sydney A. Fisher, and 



Ixcsolved, that in reference to the notice 

 of motion given by Mr. Southworth this 

 Association, while thoroughly appreciating 

 that the aim of Mr. Southworth is wholly 

 to secure the advancement of the cause of 

 forestry through the widest publicity, still 

 believes that the newspaper publicity which 

 Mr. Southworth desires can be fully secured 

 while carrying on the Canadian ForcHtry 

 Jfnirnal, and hereby instructs the Directors 

 and the Editorial (Committee to endeavor 

 to develop this bulletin work and at the same 

 tin:e to make the Journal as effective as the 



