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forest resources of British Columbia the 

 Canadian Forestry Association express 

 its strong support of the policy which 

 has been announced by the British Co- 

 lumbia Government that there shall be 

 established in connection with the Uni- 

 versity of British Columbia a Forest 

 School designed to train young men of 

 Western Canada for work in the Govern- 

 ment forest services and in the different 

 branches of the timber business. 



(11) Resolved, that the Convention 

 heartily approves of the establishment of 

 ranger schools for the training of forest 

 rangers for the government forest ser- 

 vice and would urge that this question 

 be given early consideration by the federal 

 and provincial governments. 



(12) Resolved, that in view of the im- 

 mense importance of impressing the 

 younger generations with the importance 

 of tree growth on the prairies, this Asso- 

 ciation commends the action of the De- 

 partments of Education and Agriculture 

 in the three prairie provinces in provid- 

 ing instruction in tree planting, horticul- 

 ture and agriculture for the school chil- 

 dren, first through their teachers, by 

 means of special classes, institutes, and 

 summer schools, and secondly direct to 

 the scholars through special instruction 

 provided by" these departments; and, 

 further, that, while expressing its ap- 

 proval of the work already done, this As- 

 sociation would point out the importance 

 of such means of disseminating informa- 

 tion, and commend it still further to 

 their consideration. 



(13) Resolved, that this Association 

 recognizes the importance of planting 

 shelter belts and other trees and shrubs 

 in the school grounds of the prairie pro- 

 vinces, and that, to encourage this work 

 in a practical manner, it recommends to 

 the attention of the Departments of Edu- 

 cation and Agriculture of the provinces, 

 and through them of the Governments, 

 the making of special grants for such im- 

 provements of a sufficiently substantial 

 nature to encourage school trustees to 

 undertake such work, and the making of 

 such regulations as will require that 

 school grounds shall be an area of not 

 less than two acres, and this convention 

 would favor an area of five acres or 

 more, surroun<ling or in the vicinity of 

 the school. 



(14) Resolved, that in view of the fact 

 that many of our prairie cities, towns, 

 and villfiges are now considering the 

 planting of parks for the rest and recre- 

 ation of their citizens, this Association 

 commends to their consideration, and 

 also to their citizens individually who 

 are thinking of undertaking such plant- 

 ing, the example of landscape work af- 

 forded by the lawn and shrubberies at 



the headquarters of the Tree Planting 

 Division at Indian Head. 



(15) Resolved, that the thanks of this 

 Convention be and are hereby tendered 

 to His Honor the Lieutenant Governor 

 for his kindness in opening the Conven- 

 tion, and to the Government of the Pro- 

 vince of Manitoba and to the Mayor and 

 Corporation of the City of Winnipeg for 

 their kindness in entertaining the 

 delegates; also to the President and 

 Directors of the Industrial Bureau for the 

 facilities granted in the use of their com- 

 modious hall and committee rooms, and for 

 the assistance given by the Commissioner, 

 Mr. Chas. F. Roland in planning the ar- 

 rangements foT the Convention. 



(16) Resolved, that the thanks of this 

 Convention are due and are hereby tender- 

 e<l to the Press of Canada, and particu- 

 larly of the City of Winnipeg for 

 the publicity given the Convention and 

 the excellent report of its proceedings. 



(17) Resolved, that the thanks of the 

 Convention be tendered the Railways of 

 Canada, and to the Eastern, Western and 

 Transcontinental Passenger Association 

 for their kindness in granting Conven- 

 tion rates for this meeting. 



LOSS TO CONSERVATION CIRCLES. 



Mr. M. J. Patton, Assistant Secretary 

 and Editor of the Commission of Conserva- 

 tion since the organization of the Commis- 

 sion in January, 1910, has been appointed 

 Treasurer of the Publishers Association of 

 Canada, Limited, Toronto, and will as- 

 sume his new duties early in September. 



Mr. Patton is an honor gradiiate of 

 Queen's University and gold medallist in 

 political science. Besides filling the duties 

 of Assistant Secretary he has had charge 

 of the publicity work of the Commission. 

 During his term of office with the Com- 

 mission he was charged with the direction 

 of several investigations of the natural 

 resources, and his reports on the oyster 

 fishing in the Maritime Provinces were 

 partially responsible for an agreement aa 

 to jurisdiction being reached by the Do- 

 minion and the Provinces, with the result 

 that oyster farming is now being exten- 

 sively engaged in. 



The Publishers Association of Canada is 

 chiefiy engaged in publishing works on re- 

 sources and history of Canada, and Mr. 

 Patton 's knowledge acquired while with 

 the Commission will be of value to him in 

 his new position. Conservation work 



loses a careful investigator and able ex- 

 ponent in the departure of Mr. Patton for 

 his new work, and his many friends, while 

 they will regret this loss to the public ser- 

 vice, wish Mr. Patton every success in his 

 new field. 



