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Canadian Forestry Journal, March, 1919 



CANADA THE MASTER OF ITS FORESTS 



Our forests have a wealth-producing capacity, the possibiHties of which, from a long- 

 time viewpoint, have as yet been realized only in small part, observes the Commission of 

 Conservation. To transmute these possibilities into permanent actualities requires, how- 

 ever, the general acceptance, by the people in general, and by Governments in particular, 

 of the fundamental principle that the forest is a crop, rather than a mine, and that cutting 

 operations on non-agricultural lands must be conducted always with a view to the per- 

 petuation of the forest as such. 



The practise of silviculture is still in its veriest infancy in Canada, as it is over most 

 of North America. There is still far too strong a tendency toward the practise of 

 forestry anywhere except in the woods. At the same time, it must always be realized 

 that forestry is essentially a business proposition, and that business considerations place 

 definite limitations upon what it is feasible to do in the direction of intensive methods. 



On the other hand, the forest lands of Canada are predominantly Crown lands and 

 are therefore, for the most part, the property of the people of the country. It follows 

 that the public interest, from a long-time viewpoint, should govern in determining the con- 

 ditions under which exploitation takes place. With the present increased stumpage values, 

 many things in the direction of better management are now becoming economically feasible 

 which would have been out of the question in years past. 



THE GARBAGE OF THE WOODS 



"Slash is the garbage of the woods; and just 

 as the city garbage must be destroyed to protect 

 the health of the citizens, so should the forest 

 garbage be burned for the protection of the 

 trees. How can we expect the remaining timber 

 to be healthy when each year we distribute 

 throughout the province many square miles of 

 this rubbish, the finest breeding ground for in- 



sects and fungi that could possibly be conceived? 

 "As a preventive and insurance against in- 

 sect and fungus troubles the slash should always 

 be burned; but at this time, when slash burning 

 will without any doubt go far toward checking 

 the balsam disease in regions where it has only 

 started, and in preventing its development in 

 areas that have thus far remained healthy. 



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