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Canadian Forestr]) Journal, February, 1919 



A Western Secretary. 



Under the realization that the needs of the 

 Forestry Association's educational work in the 

 prairie provinces and British Columbia is quite 

 as pronounced as in Eastern Canada, efforts 

 were made by the Secretary to sound out British 

 Columbia ooinion on the question of appointing 

 a resident secretary of the Association in that 

 province. The advice of several of the western 

 directors was sought in this matter and the pro- 

 ject received hearty approval. With only one 

 executive officer for the Dominion, the geogra- 

 phical difficulties alone have been sufficient to 

 prevent his carrying out any intensive educa- 

 tional effort west of Ontario. An appeal was 

 made to the Government of British Columbia 

 for financial assistance and we are yet to receive 

 a definite reply. Inasmuch as several of the 

 larger British Columbia wood-using industries 

 have consented to contribute an annual amount 

 for the up-keep of a resident secretary, we feel 

 we are justified in continuing our efforts so as to 

 secure the sum of four or five thousand dollars 



yearly to put our educational work in British 

 Columbia and Alberta on a proper footing. 



New Tasks in Ontario. 



In addition to the several uncompleted pro- 

 jects carried over from 1918, the Association 

 may well consider the advisability of initiating 

 a campaign to secure the extension of authority 

 of the Ontario Forest Service so as to provide 

 for technical supervision of cutfmg operations 

 on licensed lands. 



A similar opportunity to perform a public 

 service is to be found in the present anomaly by 

 which the cutting operations on the licensed 

 timber berths in the prairie provinces and on the 

 railway beJt of British Columbia, outside the 

 Reserves, have no technical forestry supervision 

 whatever. This fault may be remedied very 

 effectively and simply by extending the juris- 

 diction of the Dominion Forestry Branch to 

 For many years this step has been urged by this 

 cover all timber operations on Dominion lands. 

 Association and by the Commission of Conser- 

 vation. 



THE FOREST CONFERENCE AT MONTREAL. 



A Forest Conference, under the auspices of 

 the Canadian Forestry Association, the Quebec 

 Forest Protective Association, and the Wood- 

 lands Section of the Canadian Pulp and Paper 

 Association, was held at the Windsor Hotel, 

 Montreal, Wednesday and Thursday, January 

 29th and 30th. The attendance surpassed that 

 of former years, the meeting hall being well 

 filled during the greater part of the conference. 



As has been noted in the conferences of pre- 

 vious years, the effect of these annual gather- 

 ings, with their stimulating personal contact and 

 the threshing out of progressive ideas, cannot be 

 compressed into cold statistics. One requires no 

 better comment than that of two 'hard-headed' 

 lumber company presidents that they were going 

 to pay the expenses of their woods foremen to 

 the Montreal meetings of 1920. Several execu- 

 tive officers of large companies who had not 

 attended previous conferences were on hand this 

 year, at the request of their managements. From 

 these indications, one may judge that the annual 

 Forest Conference at Montreal is having a pro- 

 nounced effect upon those seriously concerned 

 with forests and forestry in Eastern Canada. 



The first day's events, under the auspices of 

 the Canadian Forestry Association, included the 

 annual business meeting on Wednesday morning 



and the public session on Wednesday afternoon. 

 In the absence of the President, Col. Dennis, 

 and the Vice-President, Mr. J. S. Gillies, the 

 chair was taken by Hon. Sydney Fisher. The 

 Directors' report of the work during 1918, 

 (reproduced elsewhere in this issue), was adopt- 

 ed. The election of officers, noted under another 

 heading, gives the Association the valued guid- 

 ance of Mr. J. S. Gillies, of Braeside, Ontario, 

 in the office of President for 1919. Mr. Clyde 

 Leavitt, who has not spared himself in the 

 Association's interest, was elected Vice-Presi- 

 dent, and Mr. Percy B. Wilson of Sault Ste. 

 Marie a new director. 



The Directors recommended that the salary of 

 the Secretary for 1919 should be $3,300. This 

 was earned. 



A Varied Programme. 



The afternoon meeting, at which Hon. Mr. 

 Fisher presided, commenced with an address by 

 Major Barrington Moore, second in command of 

 United States forestry operations in France. 

 Major Moore's interesting paper is reproduced 

 in the present issue of the Journal. Mr. F. J. 

 Campbell, President of the Canadian Pulp and 

 Paper Association, and Mr. W. Gerard Power, 

 President of the Canadian Lumbermen's Asso- 



