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Canadian Forestry Journal, June, 1919 



DESTROYERS OF THE FOREST 



"The Canadian Forestry Association has a 

 man's size, Hfe long job on its hands in its work 

 of protecting the future of Canadian industries 

 that are dependent upon the forest and which 

 are seriously threatened with extinction by care- 

 lessness with regard to fires," says the Pulp and 

 Paper Magazine. "They have recently put out 

 a booklet in which the story of a camp fire is 

 given as a dialogue between the spirit of flames 

 and a boy who went out in the woods for an 

 adventure. This certainly should bring home 

 to the careless camper not only the danger of 

 leaving a fire that is not completely extinguished 

 or allowing a camp fire to get too large, but it 

 also contains some of the most pointed direc- 

 tions for extinguishing a fire that we have seen. 

 The whole thing is presented in an interesting 

 way that makes very good reading and can be 

 made the basis of a very lively evening's meet- 

 ing for a troop of Boy Scouts or Camp Fire Girls 



or even for a reading lesson in a school class- 

 room. 



"Efficient forest protective organizations are 

 necessary, but the most important of all con- 

 siderations is to have an intelligent public whose 

 conscience will not permit them to throw lighted 

 matches or hot pipe ashes or cigarette butts 

 promiscuously about the woods, nor to leave 

 camp fires with a single live coal, or permit set- 

 tlers to burn brush except under perfectly safe 

 conditions. Railroads are pretty well regulated 

 and the fires from locomotives are becoming 

 quite infrequent while section hands are also 

 taking more care in regard to the danger from 

 fire. It is the general public and the individual 

 conscience that must be appealed to in order 

 to prevent fires from starting. It is only by 

 keeping fires from getting a start that we can 

 hope to make our forests completely safe from 

 this danger." 



LECTURES IN FRENCH SETTLEMENTS 



Mr. A. H. Beaubien who last year made a 

 success of a lecture tour in French-speaking 

 districts on behalf of the Canadian Forestry As- 

 sociation, is again holding large public meetings 

 in Quebec, this time with the aid of motion 

 pictures. One of the best of the films is entitled 

 "The Enemy of the Forest" and gives a striking 

 illustration of the or-dinary causes and effects 

 of forest fires. The film was prepared by the 

 Publicity and Exhibits Branch of the Depart- 



ment of Trade and Commerce, under the direc- 

 tion of Mr. B. H. Norrish, and is regarded as the 

 best educational film on the subject yet pro- 

 duced in Canada or the United States. 



Mr. Beaubien's meetings have been in the 

 French-speaking settlements along the Mont 

 Laurier division of the C.P.R. and will be con- 

 tinued south of the St. Lawrence in the territory 

 of the Southern St. Lawrence Forest Protective 

 Association. 



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