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Canadian Forestry Journal. 



vision of the forester as the man 

 with a spade who goes out to plant 

 one tree at a time. Now, as a mat- 

 ter of fact, at the present prices of 

 lumber, labor and land, the denuded 

 areas of North America are not go- 

 ing to be restocked by planti'ig. 

 AVhere trees of a desirable species 

 have completely disappeared so that 

 none are left for seed, there will 

 have to be some planting, but to let 

 things go until planting becomes a 

 necessity will be to spell ruin, will 

 be to bring in a state of affairs from 

 which this country will not recover 

 for a century or more. The forester 

 is the man with the axe. The forest- 

 er is, in fact, the lumberman work 

 ing under improved conditions, and 

 there is no time when these condi- 

 tions can be improved so cheaply 

 and with such good results as at the 

 present. 



To say all this is not to imply 

 that the various Crown Lands and 

 Forestry Departments of the Do- 

 minion are not alive to their duty, 

 or that the lumbermen are all 

 blameworthy, or that governments 

 have not made, according to the 

 state of knowledge, considerable 

 provision for this service in the past. 

 We believe that for years those di- 

 rectly responsible for the forests 

 have been doing their duty as well 

 as circumstances permitted. Th -^^ 

 have been more concerned, and are 



more concerned today, than anyone 

 else in the country, but they have 

 been, according to the old fable, ex- 

 pected 'to make soup out of stone'. 

 The territories in their charge have 

 produced a large part of the rev- 

 enue which carried on the adminis- 

 tration of affairs in this country, 

 and we, the public, have not heeded 

 their constant statement that if they 

 were to be expected to provide a 

 continuous revenue they must be 

 given the means and the men to lay 

 out a rational system by which the 

 various forest areas would be re- 

 stocked and allowed to grow with- 

 out being burrt up. 



As we have said, the public be- 

 lieve that forestry work in Canada 

 is completed, that everything is in 

 hand and that nothing more remains 

 to be done, whereas in reality we 

 have not yet started. It is there- 

 fore proposed to take up in the Can 

 adian Forestry Journal from time to 

 time specific cases of lands suited 

 only for limber, to show their pres- 

 ent state, what will happen if tVey 

 are allowed to remain as at present 

 or grow worse, and on the other 

 hand what could reasonably be ex- 

 pected if they are properly handled, 

 and to state as nearly as possible 

 what will be the cost and what Ihe 

 profit, both direct and indirect, of 

 rational treatment. 



The Turtle Mountain Forest Reserve. 



The Turtle Mountain Forest Re- 

 serve is one of the smallest of tiie 

 Dominion forest reserves, but it is 

 situated in very close proximity to 

 a flourishing and prosperous far tj- 

 ing community and to that section 

 of Manitoba is of much importance. 



The reserve consists of a tract of 

 some 70,000 acres of land si(-;ia'"ed 

 in Township 1, Ranges 39 20, 21 



and 22 west of the principal meri- 

 dian. It is thus in the very near 

 vicinity of a number of flourishing 

 towns, among which are Deloraine, 

 Boissevain, Waskada, Ninga and 

 Killarney. It is distant only about 

 sixty miles in a direct line from the 

 city of Brandon and forty miles 

 from the town of Souris. 



The land is from 300 to 500 feet 



