Dominion Forestry Work, 1 9 H ♦ 



An Outline of the ^Vo^k Projected by the Forestry Branch this 



Summer. 



With the increasing number of 

 trained men that is now becoming 

 available through the institution of 

 the forest schools of Canada, it has 

 become possible for the Forestry 

 Branch of the Department of the 

 Interior to develop its work to a 

 greater degree, and this season the 

 number of men in its employ — tem- 

 porarily, at least — shows a consider- 

 able increase. An outline of its 

 work will be found of considerable 

 interest. 



Surveys. 



Seven parties in all are engaged 

 in survey work of yarious kinds. 



Of these parties two will be en- 

 gaged in a continuation of the work, 

 commenced last year, of determining 

 the eastern boundary of the Rocky 

 Mountain forest reserve. Botli of 

 these parties are in general charge 

 of Mr. G. H. Edgecombe, B. Sc. F. 

 Going in by way of Edmonton, these 

 parties started their operations at 

 the line of the Grand Trunk Pacific 

 railway, the 'northern' party work- 

 inp- northward toward the northern 

 limit of the reserve, the 'southern' 

 party working soutliAvard to the Htli 

 base line, (a point nearly due west 

 of Lacombe, Alta.), up to which Mr. 

 Caverhill located the boundary last 

 season. The southern party is com- 

 posed of Messrs. Geo. Tunstell, Wra. 

 Kynoch, S. H. Clark and E. H. Fin- 

 layson, while in the northern party 

 are Messrs. G. A. FitzRandolph, C. 

 R. Mills and E. C. IManning. 



A survey of the Porcupine Hills 

 in Alberta is being made by a party 

 with Mr. E. G. McDougall, B. Sc. F., 

 at its head. These hills, while out- 

 side the boundary of the Rocky 

 Mountain forest reserve, are report- 

 ed to be well timbered, and the sur- 



vey is being made with a view to 

 ascertain whether they are suitable 

 to be formed into a regular forest 

 reserve. jMr. McDougall's assistants 

 are Messrs. Roy L. Campbell, A. K. 

 Shives, K. R. Machum and L. S. 

 Newman. 



^Ir. II. C. Wallin, who has been 

 with the Forestry Branch for several 

 years, will continue the work of in- 

 specting timber limits within the 

 Railway ]^elt in British Columbia, 

 wilJi a view to ascertaining which 

 of these are suitable for being thrown 

 open to settlement as agricultural 

 lands and which are permanently to 

 be reserved for forest purposes. The 

 great demand for land for farming 

 Avithin the British Columbia Railway 

 Belt has made this work one of con- 

 siderable importance. The examin- 

 alion of tracts suitable for reserves 

 will also be carried on. ]\Ir. Wallin's 

 assistants will be Messrs. H. C. 

 Kinghorn, B. Sc. F., a graduate of 

 the Forest School of the University 

 of New Brunswick, who will have 

 charge of a separate party for part 

 of the season ; II. S. Irwin, R. McG. 

 Watt, G. II. Prince and C. IT. Morse. 



Mr. D. Roy Cameron, B. Sc. F., will 

 have charge of a reconnaissance sur- 

 vey of the timber in the vicinity of 

 Lesser Slave Lake, and will have as 

 assistants in the work Messrs. J. 

 Andre Doucet (who was with Mr. 

 Dickson's party last summer), R. G. 

 Lewis and Fred. McVickar. 



Mr. W. J. Vandusen will be the 

 leader of a party which will work in 

 the Porcunine mountains, in Saskat- 

 chewan. This party will survey 

 the Porcupine mountains west of the 

 present reserve, with the object of 

 ascertaining how much, if any, of 

 the land there should be permanently 



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