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shall have been perfected for the pro- 

 tection on their ovn\ limits, there still 

 remains the necessity for the protec- 

 tion of municipal and private lands. 



For this the organization in part 

 inaugurated in the Province of Nova 

 Scotia may be taken as a starting 

 point, namely a service based on the 

 payment of a certain tax in propor- 

 tion to the holdings, local fire-wardens 

 pwiid when on duty, organized under a 

 provincial head, and obligation of citi- 

 zens to assist in extinguishing fires. 



More effective, however, under 

 other conditions, may be found the 

 organization of local associations for 

 protection against fire, such as the 

 Committee referred to in its first re- 

 port. 



One such Association was formed 

 last spring in Quebec, the St. Mau- 

 rice Forest Protective Association, 

 manager, three inspectors, and fifty 

 rangers extended protection over 7,- 

 000,000 acres of limits. The cost is 

 met by an assessment of one quarter 

 cent per acre upon limit-holders, the 

 Provincial Government contributing 

 $3,000. During the first season of 



its existence, ninety-seven fires were 

 extinguished, only one of which run- 

 ning in a slash assumed any consid- 

 erable proportion. The construction 

 of lookout stations, telephone lines 

 and trails has also been begun by the 

 Association. The Committee, one of 

 whose members has been largely in- 

 strumental in the formation, desires 

 to record its appreciation of this in- 

 itiative, and hopes that this method of 

 meeting the trouble will find wide- 

 spread imitation as the most hopeful 

 one. 



In conclusion, the Committee ven- 

 tures to suggest its continuance for 

 the purpose of assisting in similar ef- 

 forts and of recording progress from 

 year to year in the development of 

 this most important phase of the for- 

 estry problem. 



(Signed) B. E. Fernow, Chairman. 

 JuDSON F. Clark. 



F. Davison. 

 W. C. J. Hall. 



G. C. PiCHE. 



Thomas Southworth. 

 Ellwood Wilson. 



MUCH ACTIVITY IN QUEBEC FOR- 

 ESTRY DEPARTMENT. 



Mr. Avila Bedard, assistant to Mr. G. C. 

 PicW, Chief Forester, left by the Megantic 

 for Europe, where he will study the man- 

 agement of forests and measures employed 

 to combat insects in France, Belgium and 

 Switzerland. 



The engineers of the Forestry Department 

 are at work as follows: — 



Mr. George Boisvert has just returned 

 from an exploration trip to the sources of 

 the Kedgwick, Mistigougeche and Metis 

 Rivers, where he found extensive foreftf, 

 ar-resHible and easy to develop. 



Mr. L. D. Marquis is taking an inventory 

 of the forestry resources in the basin of the 

 Assametquagan River in the Metapedia \'al- 

 ley. 



Mr. Felix Laliberte will leave shortly to 

 go and study the general conditions and 

 the forestry resources in the basin of the 

 Mistassini River in the Lake St. John dis- 

 trict. 



Mr. Ernest Menard will visit the basin of 

 the Peribonka River. 



Mr. Picard will go to Abitibi to make and 



roviou a study of the Migiskan and Bell 

 Rivers. 



Mr. Henri Roy will continue to make the 

 clasf'ification of the lands t-ituated north of 

 the (^uinze River. 



Mr. Henri Keiffer, assisted by Mr. Picard, 

 will classify in the townships and counties 

 of Terrel)onne and Labelle. 



Mr. Barroniee Guerin will work in Beauce 

 to complete the inspection of lots and to 

 elasHify vacant lots. 



— Fulp and Paper Magazine. 



NOVA SCOTIA LUMBERING. 



The cut in Nova Scotia this season only 

 amounts to 60 per cent, of the normal. 

 Short hauling season and soft weather forc- 

 ed a curtailment of operations. Mr. W. G. 

 Clarke, a leading lumV)erman of the province, 

 state<l recently that Nova Scotia lumbermen 

 would have to change their methods and 

 use logging methods not dependent on snow. 

 The shipments have decreased and prices 

 stiffened about $1.00. 



