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forests without a full knowledge of this great 

 resource? The New Brunswick Forest Survey 

 and reclassification of Crown Lands was de- 

 signed to provide just this information. Almost 

 one quarter of the Provincial Forests have al- 

 ready been examined, and the results so far ob- 

 tained have fully justified the cost. 



Politics on the Scrap Pile. 



It was recognized that without a permanent, 

 properly-disciplined and efficient field staff of 

 forest rangers, unhampered by the influence of 

 politics, very little of the above objects could be 

 accomplished. Consequently the 1918 Forest 

 Act was passed, providing for a Forestry Ad- 

 visory Commission of five members, two mem- 

 bers of which are practical lumbermen and re- 

 present the lumber industries of the Province. 

 This Commission controls all permanent appoint- 

 ments to the Forest Service. Applicants must 

 pass a searching examination and give six 

 months' satisfactory service before receiving a 

 permanent appointment. The actual selection 

 and appointment of our Forest Rangers and In- 

 spectors on this basis of merit alone, which is 

 just being completed, is considered one of the 

 most vital and important steps in the organiza- 

 tion of any Forest Service, and in the permanent 

 progress of forestry in New Brunswick. The 

 Commissioners feel that through the appoint- 

 ment by competitive examination they have se- 

 cured a splendid staff of Rangers, and they look 

 for a reasonable and just treatment of all the 

 various matters coming under a Ranger's duties. 



New Way of Selling Timber. 



A most important departure was the recent 

 adoption of a short term timber sale policy in 

 regard to some hundreds of miles of expired 

 timber licenses. The price obtained for this 

 timber by open competitive bidding varied from 

 $5.50 to $7.75 per thousand feet, and had the 

 effect of fully justifying this unusual procedure, 

 which is unprecedented in New Brunswick's 

 forest policy. 



Looking to the Future. 



New Brunswick has won world-wide fame as 

 the "Land of Comfortable Homes." It has been 

 said, and truly so, that the success of the home- 

 makers depends in the long run on the wisdom 

 with which a nation takes care of its forests. It 

 is therefore our duty as statesmen to so direct 

 the utilization of our forests that we shall con- 

 serve this greatest natural resource of our land, 

 and in our turn hand down to posterity unex- 

 hausted that noble heritage so freely bestowed 

 by Nature. 



FOR STANDARDIZATION. 



A new branch of the Canadian Forestry Asso- 

 ciation, to be known as the Standardization 

 Committee, was authorized at the Annual Meet- 

 ing at Montreal, with the following as members: 

 G. H. Prince, Chief of Forest Service, 



Fredericton, N.B. 

 L. S. Webb, Forester, Forest Service, 



Fredericton, N.B. 

 J. H. White, Asst. Provincial Forester, 



Forestry Branch, Toronto. 

 L. E. Bliss, General Supt. Forestry Branch, 



Sudbury, Ont. 

 T. W. Dwight, Asst. Director, Dominion 



Forestry Branch, Ottawa. 

 J. B. Harkin, Commissioner, Dominion 



Parks, Ottawa, Ont. 

 Henry Sorgius, Manager, 



St. Maurice Forest Protestion .Assn., Ltd., 

 Three Rivers, P.Q. 

 B. Guerin, Manager, Western Div., 

 J. D. Brule, Manager, Eastern Div., 



The Southern St. Lawrence Forest Protect- 

 ive Assn., Ltd., Quebec, P.Q. 

 Arthur H. Graham, Manager, The Ottawa 

 River, Forest Protective .Assn., Ltd., 

 Ottawa, Ont. 

 R. L. Seaborne, Manager, The Laurentian 

 Forest Protective Association, Ltd., 

 Quebec, P.Q. 

 A. Bedard, Fire Inspector, Provincial Forest 



Service, Quebec, P.Q. 

 H. C. Johnson, Fire Inspector, 

 Board of Railway Commissioners, 

 Ottawa, Ont. 

 It is proposed to add representatives of the 

 British Columbia Forest Service; The Canadian 

 Pacific Railway Forestry Branch: The Canadian 

 National Railways Fire Inspection Department, 

 and others who are now engaged in forest fire 

 protection work in Canada. 



Primarily the Committee's work is to endea- 

 vour to standardize fire laws and regulations, 

 forms and reports, fire warning posters, publi- 

 city literature, etc., tools, equipment and sup- 

 plies, mechanical equipment and accessories: 

 also, to seek, encourage, experiment with and 

 develop new ideas, methods, and apparatus, all 

 in connection and allied with the profession of 

 forest fire protection. Wherever standardization 

 can be arrived at, it is suggested that one of the 

 benefits protective organizations can secure, is 

 a reduction in the cost of such items as posters, 

 publicity literature, tools, mechanical apparatus 

 and accessories, by combining their orders for 

 such items with those of other organizations. 



