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been extended into Saskatchewan, 

 the same plan has been adopted in 

 designating it as was taken with the 

 Porcupine reserves ; that is, the part 

 of the reserve within the province 

 of Manitoba is known as Duck Moun- 

 tain reserve No. 1, while that in 

 Saskatchewan is called Duck Moun- 

 tain reserve No. 2. 



Saskatchewan — 



In Saskatchewan Porcupine re- 

 serve No. 2 is unchanged. Moose 

 Mountain Forest Reserve is dimin- 

 ished by seven square miles, while 

 The Pines forest reserve has nine 

 square miles added to its area. The 

 Beaver Hills reserve is increased by 

 twenty-seven square miles. 



Three new reserves have been cre- 

 ated, namely, Duck Mountain No. 2, 

 Cypress Hills No. 2 and Nisbet for- 

 est reserves. Duck Mountain Re- 

 serve No. 2 has an area of eighty- 

 one square miles ; it is contiguous 

 with Duck Mountain Reserve No. 1. 

 The Cypress Hill Reserve No. 2 is 

 continguous with Cypress Hills re- 

 serve No. 1 as established under this 

 Act ; it is seventy-two square miles 

 in area. The Nisbet forest reserve 

 is directly across the river from 

 Prince Albert; its area is 15 square 

 miles. 



Alberta — 



The Cooking Lake reserve in Al- 

 berta is enlarged from 111.5 square 

 miles to 114, and the Cypress Hills 

 reserve from eighteen to eighty-one. 

 The latter reserve is now known as 

 Cypress Hills reserve No. 1 (for the 

 same reason as in the case of the 

 Porcunine and Duck Mountain re- 

 serves), and Cypress Hills reserve 

 No. 2 is contiguous with it in Sask- 

 atchewan. 



The largest reserve of all (first 

 set aside by order in council in May, 

 1910, and referred to in the June, 

 1910, issue of the Journol) is the 

 Rocky Mountain forest reserve. The 

 area, as defined in the Act, is 18,213 

 square miles. This, of course, in- 

 cludes Rocky Jlountain (Banff) 



Park, Jasper Forest Park and the 

 Waterton Lakes Park. 



Buffalo Park, near Wainwright, 

 Alta., is also set aside, 159 square 

 miles in area. 



The aggregate area of the reserves 

 and parks is now 25,1861/2 square 

 miles, as compared with 16,31214 

 square miles formerly. The increase 

 in Manitoba is nine and a half square 

 miles, the area now under reserve 

 being 3.584% square miles, as com- 

 pared with the previous area 3,575^/4 

 square miles. With the present area 

 of 937 square miles under reserve, 

 the Saskatchewan reserves have in- 

 creased by 197 square miles over the 

 former area of 740 square miles. Al- 

 berta's reserves have well nigh 

 doubled in area, being now 18,5641/2 

 square miles as compared with 9,702, 

 an increase of 8,86214 square miles. 

 In British Columbia alone has the 

 area under reserve been lessened. In 

 that province the former reserved 

 area was 2,295 square miles ; the area 

 reserved is now 2,1151/4 square miles, 

 thus showing a decrease of 179% 

 square miles. 



TREE PLANTING IN NEW BRUNS- 

 WICK. 



A despatch from Moncton, N.B., to the 

 St. .John Telegraph reads: 



Prof. R. B. Miller, head of the forestry- 

 department in the University of New 

 -Brunswick, is here superintending the 

 planting of jiine seedlings on a block of 

 land owned by Dr. A. R. Myers about 

 twelve miles from Moncton. In all some 

 45,000 transplants will be put in, cover- 

 ing a territory of about twenty-five acres. 

 This is the first jilanting of white pine 

 done in New Brunswick or in the mari- 

 time provinces. 



Prof. Miller estimates in thirty or 

 thirty-five years, white pine transplants 

 will be good sized lumber. Dr. Myers, who 

 is the first to introduce the restoring of 

 the forests in New Brunswick, has secur- 

 ed a quantity of white pine seed and in- 

 tends raising transplants of his own, there- 

 by effecting a great saving. Prof. Miller 

 is growing white pine seedlings at the 

 University of New Brunswick, Frederic- 

 ton, and expects to have some ready for 

 distribution within a year or two. 



It was Prof. Miller's intention to have 

 a camp of students here to do the plant- 

 ing, but examinations interfered. 



