With the Forest Engineers* 



{Contributed by the Canadian Society of Forest Engineers.) 



The formation of local forest En- 

 gineers' organizations is projected in Ot- 

 tawa and Victoria, B.C. 



Advisory Committees. 



The following are the Advisory Commit- 

 tees, a,ppointed in accordance with the 

 resolution passed by the last annual meet- 

 ing: — . 



Quebec and Maritime Provinces — G. C. 

 Piche, R. B. Miller, R. R. Bradley. 



Ontario— C. Leavitt, A. H. D. Ross, T. 

 W. Dwight. 



Prairie Provinces— N. M. Ross, W. N. 

 Millar, L. M. Ellis. 



British Columbia— Dr. J. F. Clark, H. R. 

 MacMillan, D. R. Cameron. 



Quebec Forest Protective Service. 



Mr. W. C. J. Hall, superintendent of the 

 Quebec forest protective service, writes: — 



*We have had a very successful season. 

 Though there were lots of fires, as the 

 weather was very dry up to the middle of 

 October, we succeeded in extinguishing 

 them all with very little damage done. 

 The only exception was one bad fire on the 

 upper Ottawa, which we are getting de- 

 tails about now. The railway work was 

 most satisfactory.' 



The St. Maurice Valley. 



Mr. Ellwood Wilson, forester for the 

 Laurentide Company, writes: — 'Mr. Clyde 

 Leavitt has just been on an inspection trip 

 through the logging operations of the 

 Laurentide Company with me. The sec- 

 tions where top-lopping was tried last win- 

 ter were visited, and Mr. Leavitt made 

 some very valuable suggestions for the 

 conduct of the work thjs year. Cuttings 

 of other companies were also visited and 

 the contrast was very marked. One com- 

 pany had left pine logs twenty two inches 

 in diameter in the woods and had used 

 large pine and spruce for skids and left 

 them to rot. Tops eight inches in diameter 

 and even larger were common. The condi- 

 tion of such cuttings from the point of 

 view of fire protection is very dangerous 

 and it might be mentioned that this is the 

 only company which has refused to join 

 the Fire Protective Association, 



'Mr. M. C. Small is continuing his ex- 

 periments with top-lopping on the limits of 

 the Laurentide Company. Last year this 

 company, for the first time in Canada, tried 

 top-lopping and found it so successful that 

 it is to be continued this year and experi- 



ments undertaken to show the exact cost 

 and the best and cheapest way to do it. 

 By an efficient system of inspection Mr. 

 Small has reduced the woods waste to the 

 lowest possible point and very materially 

 reduced the fire risk. As an instance of 

 this, two thousand logs were made this 

 fall from the tops of trees used in building 

 a log flume. ' 



Wide-Awake Western Foresters. 



Mr. R. D. Craig, of Vancouver, writes: — 

 'This summer I made a trip from Kam- 

 loops to Tete Jaune Cache along the line 

 of the Canadian Northern, as it follows the 

 North Thompson, and came out to civiliza- 

 tion at Edmonton (if you consider the 

 prairies civilized). I wrote a description 

 of this trip for the last issue of the West- 

 ern Lumberman. 



'I spent two weeks up the Toba river, 

 150 miles north of Vancouver, last month. 

 This is one of the finest valleys of timber 

 in British Columbia. We went up in a 

 canoe over thirty miles, all through excel- 

 lent fir, cedar and spruce. The firs aver- 

 aged about 8,000 feet, board measure, to 

 the tree, with 125 feet of log length. The 

 cedar and spruce were also very fine. This 

 timber is owned by the Canada Timber 

 and Lands, Ltd., of which Mr. E. Stewart 

 is managing director. The river is driv- 

 able throughout th€ timbered area, and in 

 the summer is navigable for launches for 

 over twenty miles. It is a hunter's par- 

 adise for mountain goat, deer and bear.' 



Mr. D. R. Cameron writes from Kam- 

 loops: — 'I have just returned from an in- 

 spection trip of the Lower Eraser country, 

 made in company with Mr. R. E. Benedict, 

 of the Briitsh Columbia Forest Branch. 

 Our object was to work out a basis for 

 more co-operation in forest protection. The 

 intention is for the Dominion forest rang- 

 ers to take over the issuing of burning per- 

 mits, thus preventing duplication of staflP 

 and giving the Dominion service better 

 control of the fire situation.' 



Mr. E. G. McDougall writes again, dat- 

 ing his letter from Clinton, B.C., (on the 

 old Caribou Road) and describing his 

 work in the valley of the Bonaparte river 

 (which joins the Fraser at Ashcroft). He 

 says: — 'I am still at work in the plain 

 drained by the Bonaparte river, and hope 

 to be able to keep the field until well into 

 December. The Bonaparte plain is settled 

 to some extent, and, at a pinch, shelter 



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