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are developed. In order to give the entire 

 force the benefit of this experience it is 

 planned to run a Department for contribut- 

 ed articles in the Rocky Mountain Review 

 and Forest Rangers and other Forest Of- 

 ^cers are requested to forward short 

 articles of this nature for insertion in the 

 publication. 



i A considerable number of forest publi- 

 cations from the National Forests in the 

 United States are received by the In- 

 spector's Office as well as a number of 

 lumber journals and forestry periodicals, 

 in such papers there is generally to be 

 found a great number of items of interest 

 tot members of the Forestry Service and 

 pne of the main purposes of this publica- 

 tion will be the insertion of items clipped 

 from exchanges so that they may be 

 brought to the attention of all of the of- 

 ficers in the District. 



The Canadian . Forestry Journal 

 jwishes the 'Review' a long,' useful and 

 ihappy life. In the promotion .r of 

 efficiency and pleasure among all it 

 reaches it will do a great work in 

 teanadian, forestry to-day. 



JgliThe officers in charge of the reserve 

 are: — District Inspector, W. N. 

 Millar. Supervisors Forest Reserves ; 

 Crows Nest, R. M. Brown ; Bow 

 River, F. G. Edgar; Clearwater, Jas. 

 W. McAbee; Brazeau, L. C. Tilt; 

 Athabasca, L. C. Tilt, (acting) ; 

 Cypress HiUs, W. N. Millar, (act- 

 ,ing) ; Cooking Lake, "W. N. Millar, 

 (acting). 



PROGRESS IN FORESTRY. 



{Continued from page 69.) 



twice as much to 'build a house as it 

 did in 1900. Fast as our population 

 in Canada has been increasing since 

 1890 our wood consumption has been 

 increasing nearly three times as rap- 

 idly. Canadians are now the largest 

 per capita consumers in the world of 

 wood products. Our timber exports 

 to Oreat Britain fell off nearly one 

 million dollars last year. In two or 

 fjiree decades when we have largely 

 used up our valuable timber and feel 

 forced actually to grow our timber 

 supply the prices will be for the poor 

 man almost prohibitive. 



In view of these facts why do we 



still prate about our inexhaustible for- 

 ests? I have recently heard it stated 

 that there were billions and billions 

 of feet of fine saw timber in the part 

 recently added to Manitoba. I am 

 not a pessimist in regard to this re- 

 cent addition, but I feel sure it has a 

 splendid and wonderful future. Nev- 

 ertheless as the result of terrible fires 

 in the past eighty years only a frac- 

 tion of one per cent, of this territory 

 to-day has commercially valuable saw 

 timber, — that is, timber over eight 

 inches in diameter. But the coun- 

 try has a thrifty young stand of 

 spruce, which, if it can be saved from 

 fire, will in say twenty-five years form 

 highly valuable pulp wood forests. 



Dr. Judson F. Clark of Vancouver, 

 says: — 'Personally, I think it is be- 

 yond doubt that the development of 

 a rational, and therefore practical 

 and business-like, forest policy, by the 

 Canadian Provinces and the Federal 

 Government, will have a greater in- 

 fluence on the prosperity and happi- 

 ness of our country half a century 

 hence, than the solution of any other 

 problem which is within the power of 

 our generation to solve.' 



If we agree with Dr. Clark the next 

 question is how are we to go about 

 this work? To arrive at a just and 

 correct basis of co-operation is the 

 crux of the problem, and hence I have 

 placed it in the centre of the follow- 

 ing six factors, which I believe will 

 appeal to you as perhaps the main 

 elements to be considered in your 

 working out of such a forest policy, 

 viz. : 



1. Education of Public Opinion, to 

 provide the authority, the money, the 

 driving power. 



2. Classification, according to its 

 producing capacity, of all publicly 

 owned land, including of course 

 licensed berths, to provide for per- 

 manence of use. 



3. A scheme of cordial and mutual- 

 ly profitable co-operation, on an equit- 

 able basis of duties and rewards, be- 

 tween the sovereign people and the 

 operating lumbermen. 



