Canadian Forestry Journal, March, 19/9 



125 



The importance of forestry in Victoria may 

 be judged by the fact that this state, population 

 1,400,000, which could readily grow the great- 

 er part of the timber requirements, imports from 

 other Australian states and other countries about 

 200,000,000 feet of lumber annually at a cost 

 of about $6,000,000. 



Foresters in Canada will learn with interest that 

 the chairman of the commission will receive 

 $5,000 annually, the other two members $4,000 

 each. 



FREE SERVICE TO 



RETURNED SOLDIERS 



The Canadian Forestry Journal 

 Avill be glad to publish, free of 

 charge, advertisements of return- 

 ed soldiers desiring employment 

 in any branch of forestry work. 



Employers are also invited to 

 publish, free of charge, whatever 

 vacancies exist. Government for- 

 estry departments may use the 

 colunms of the Journal to make 

 announcements concerning vac- 

 ancies. 



All readers are asked to co-oper- 

 ate in tliis service by reporting 

 new undertakings that may pro- 

 vide employment for returned 



men. 



HALF OUR FORESTS GONE. 



"Repeated forest fires are producing sim- 

 ilar results on thousands of square miles 

 throughout the Dominion. One-half of our 

 commercial timber lands have been burned. 

 Even if there never were another forest fire, 

 one-half of our future supply of timber should 

 come from these burned areas. Every fire 

 decreases that possibility by destroying the 

 young commercial trees. We have not only 

 killed the commercial, revenue-bearing trees 

 on one-half the timber-producing area in Can- 

 ada, but our forest poHcy has been such that 

 we have virtually decreed their children 

 shall not live." Dr. C. D. Howe. 



They are now using airplanes and wireless 

 m forest fire patrol work, but have not yet been 

 able to figure out any effective way for utilizing 

 submarines.- American Lumberman. 



Photo by B. R. Morton 

 AN ARBORIST NEEDED HERE' 



Shade trees in many Canadian municipalities are 

 treated by the local works department as if they 

 possessed the same characteristics as telegraph 

 poles. In the above photograph, taken on an 

 Ottawa street, the trees have been tightly cemented 

 about the base, instead of being given a circle of 

 clear soil. The inevitable usually happens. The 

 growth of the tree bulges the pavement, or the tree 

 dies. 



THE DEATH KNELL OF PINE. 



Dr. C. D. Howe examined 80,000 acres of 

 cut-over and burned-over pine lands in the 

 central portion of old Ontario and found 110 

 young pine trees on the average acre of areas 

 burned over once; 14 pine trees per acre on 

 areas burned over tw'ice; 7 pine trees per acre 

 on areas burned over three times, and only 3 

 pine trees on the average acre of areas burned 

 over four or more times. It will take several 

 hundred years for nature to restock these areas 

 with pine. 



NEW PUBLICATION FREE 

 TO ALL READERS 



The Canadian Forestry Association will be 

 glad to send to its members and fn?nds free 

 copies of a lb-page brochure: "Canada's Forests 

 as an Imperial Asset", by Robson Black. The 

 article appeared in the last issue of the Uni- 

 versity Magazine. 



