P or est Protection in Canada, 1912 



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McLoud, Washington, D. C, recording sec- 

 retary; Dr. Henry S. Drinker, South Beth- 

 lehem, Pa., treasurer, and Thomas F. Shipp, 

 Indianapolis, corresponding secretary. 



Other Business. 



Miss Mabel Boardman, President of the 

 National Red Cross Association, read a 

 paper in which she proposed that the 

 N. R. C. Association should provide $500 

 for $2,500 provided by lumbermen in a 

 given locality to defray the salary and 

 expenses of a physician to teach the men 

 in lumber camps first aid to the injured 

 and the prevention of accidents. 



Mr. E. A. Sterling held that when the 

 virgin timber of the United States was 

 used up forest supplies would have to come 

 from national and state forests. He held 



that present tendencies in private forest 

 management were now logically develop- 

 ing the fire protection and natural regen- 

 eration aspects, and that after this would 

 come more intensive forestry. 



Mr. H. S. Graves, Chief Forester of the 

 United States, read a paper on Federal 

 Forestry. The policy ahead was the de- 

 velopment of the present plans of delimit- 

 ation, classification, segregation of agri- 

 cultural from forest lands and the hand- 

 ling of the latter under permanent policies 

 based on full recognition of lasting public 

 interests. He showed how the present 

 United States forest policy was steadily 

 winning out in every way. 



These and other addresses will be dealt 

 with more fully in future issues of the 

 Canadian Forestry journal. 



Forest Protection in Canada, 1912* 



Report of Mr. Clyde Leavitt, Chief Forester, Commission of Conservation and 

 Chief Fire Inspector Board of Railway Commissioners for Canada. 



The report of Mr. Clyde Leavitt, M.Sc.F. 

 Chief Forester of the Commission of Con- 

 servation of Canada, and Chief Fire In- 

 spector of the Board of Railway Commis- 

 sioners which has just been issued is a 

 document of 175 pages illustrated by num- 

 erous engravings which add to the clear- 

 ness of the letter press descriptions. 



The report is divided into six parts and 

 three appendices dealing with specific as- 

 pects of the subject. 



Protection from Railway Fires. 

 Part I. is devoted to Protection from 

 Railway Fires. It first deals with the 

 passing of Order 16570 by the Board of 

 Railway Commissioners for Canada which 

 directs the railways to provide fire pre- 

 ventive appliances, fire patrols, etc., and 

 places the authority for seeing these car- 

 ried out under the Chief Fire Inspector, 

 Mr. Leavitt. He points out that the three 

 railways which are not subject to the regu- 

 lations of the Board of Railway Commis- 

 sioners are the Intercolonial and National 

 TranscoDtinental Railways (owned by the 

 Dominion Government) and the Timis- 

 kaming and Northern Ontario Railway 

 owned and operated by the Ontario Gov- 

 ernment. As soon as this order was passed 

 Mr. Leavitt undertook the work of organ- 

 izing the inspection of appliances, fire 

 guards and patrols in Western Canada. The 

 Dominion Forestry Branch had already pre- 

 pared a plan of patrols over the railway 



Mr. ClydelLeavltt. 



lines in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Al- 

 berta and in the Railway Belt in British 

 Columbia; and the Government of British 

 Columbia had prepared a similar plan cov- 



