WhaVs Doing in Rockies? 



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The Historic Gate of Old Fort Garry, Winnipeg. 



Says the announcement in this first 

 issue: — 



This publication has a number of pur- 

 poses, the chief of which may be stated 

 as follows: 



1. To serve as a directory of members 

 of the Service in the District. 



2. To act as a news letter so that each 

 Reserve may know what is being done on 

 the others in the District and may com- 

 pare the progress of work on the various 

 Reserves. 



3. To act as a medium for exchange of 

 ideas between officers and rangers through- 

 out the District. 



4. To act as a basis of exchange with 

 National Forests in the United States who 

 publish similar papers and for exchange 

 with other branches of the Dominion Ser- 

 vice and the Forestry Services of the 

 various provinces. Also to give the mem- 

 bers of the Alberta District force the bene- 

 fit of the experience of other Forestry 

 Services both in Canada and abroad. 



5. To act as a periodical catalogue of 

 Forestry Branch publications and library 

 accessions. 



6. By fulfilling the above functions to 

 maintain a feeling of unity and solidarity 

 among the members of the Alberta District 

 force. 



In order to accomplish the object of 

 furnishing information in regard to th^ 

 work being carried on in the various Re- 

 serves of the District the Supervisors of 

 each Reserve have been requested to pre- 

 pare a short statement each month of the 

 work done on the various Forest Reserves 

 under their charge. These news letters 

 will describe the Forest work under the 

 following headings: Improvements, Fire, 

 Timber Sales, Timber Permits, Grazing, 

 Trespass, Investigations, Miscellaneous Ac- 

 tivities, and Personal Mention. 



It can be readily understood that with 

 the large body of men employed in this 

 District various schemes of promoting 

 efficiency in the work of the Service are 

 constantly being devised. This is partic- 

 ularly true on Forest Reserves which have 

 a large amount of one kind of work such, 

 for instance, as the settlers permit busi- 

 ncHH. In such Reserves the wide-awake 

 Forest Officer generally has devised some 

 simple scheme for expediting the handling 

 of this business and contributing to the 

 convenience of the public as well as re- 

 ducing the cost to the Forestry Branch. 

 The same is true of other lines of work. 

 Also experiments of various kinds in the 

 line of construction are constantly being 

 carried on and frequently very good ideas 



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