Canadian forestry Journal 



VOL. XIV. 



OTTAWA, CANADA, FEBRUARY, 1919. 



No. 2 



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Logging" karri in W i-sttrn Australia. 'I'ln.s timlu-r (iccasidually iiniiluces :',iiii,iiiMi U.-t-r. li.ni. \-i-v acre. 



AUSTRALIA STEALS A MARCH ON CANADA 



B\) H. R. MacMillan, Assistant to Director of Aeronautical Supplies, I'ancouver , 

 Former Timber Trade Commissioner for Canada. 



Remarkable New Legislation Gives the State 



Thorough Mastery of Forest Properties — 



Public Interest Triumphs. 



A few Canadians may have observed the 

 strenuous propaganda that has been conducted 

 during the past four years in AustraHa for the 

 improvement of stat2 forest administration. 



The programme, which was initiated by 

 Messrs. Jolly, then state forester for Queens- 

 land, who had had the benefit of Oxford train- 

 ing, Hoy, the chairman of the New South Wabs 

 Forest Commission, and McKay, State Forester 

 of Victoria, has received great impetus from the 

 efforts of the West Australia Conservator of 

 Forests, Lane Poole, who brought to West 

 Australia in 1916, the benefits of training at 

 Nancy, followed by ten years admmistrative ex- 

 perience in South Africa and Sierra Leone. 



Canadians who are interested in forestry 

 would find much of profit and interest in the 



publications now issuing from the forest depart- 

 ments and forest associations of the Australian 

 States. 



Virgin Forests Fire-Killed. 

 It may astonish some of us in this country to 

 realize that the timber industry of the State of 

 Western Australia has been of greater relative 

 importance to the inhabitants of that state than 

 is the case in any Canadian province. One 

 generation of development and settlement, ac- 

 companied by fire, has produced the same forest 

 effect in Australia as in Canada. The forests of 

 this State, the population of which is 300.000. 

 which since settlement have produced timber 

 to the estimated value of $127,000,000. are now 

 stated by the president of the newly-formed 

 forest league to be good for only twenty years. 



