Canadian Forestr)) Journal, July, 1919 



325 



sense of public duty and with regard only to 

 facts which have been demonstrated to exist. 

 We look upon the present situation as a depart- 

 mental inheritance of the present Government 

 which only awaits open discussion to be rolved 

 satisfactorily. 



The Commission of Conservation has repeat- 

 edly urged upon the Dominion Government the 

 necessity of applying the authority of the Dom- 

 inion Forestry Branch to the technical operations 

 on licensed timber lands. This would not neces- 

 sarily dislocate the present organization of the 

 Timber and Grazing Branch, but would, rather, 

 initiate a line of work technical forestry — 

 which does not now exist, so far as licensed 

 timber lands are concerned. It forms, in our 

 view, a very simple method of fulfilhng the 

 obligation of the Dominion to handle the western 

 forests in the best interests of the western 

 people. The reading of Section 58 of the 

 Dominion Lands Act would lead to the con- 

 clusion that action along this line was originally 

 intended by Parliament. 



Unequal Supervision. 



As your committee is concerned also in the 

 question of duplication within the Civil Service, 

 it will, no doubt, give due attention to our argu- 

 ment that once the principle of expert forestry 

 supervision on Dominion timber berths is en- 

 dorsed, the Dominion Forestry Branch is ob- 

 viously the instrument for the application of 

 such a principle. 



At present, the Timber and Grazing Branch 

 maintains six timber agencies. The field in- 

 spection as to the carrying out of the timber 

 regulations is done by Crown timber inspectors 

 numbering about thirty-five. In many cases the 

 work is combined with that of land inspection, 

 and in any case such a staff cannot clo.iely 

 supervise lumbering operations scattered over 

 more than six thousand square miles of country. 



Foresters Available. 



The Dominion Forestry Branch, on the otlier 

 hand, has divided its field work into four m- 

 si)ection districts, corresponding with provincial 

 boundaries. These are in charge of district in- 

 spectors, who with one exception are technically- 

 trained men. The inspector is the business man- 

 ager of the reserves in his district. Each dis- 

 trict IS subdivided into administrative units, 

 each m charge of a forest supervisor, the latter 

 also being with rare exceptions a technically 

 qualified forester. Assisting the supervisor are 

 one or more forest assistants, graduates of for- 



estry colleges. The 1918-1919 field staff of the 

 Dominion Forestry Branch consists of 4 in- 

 spectors, 15 supervisors, 5 forest assistants and 

 165 rangers, making a total of 189 men, under 

 the supervision of a head office staff of tech- 

 nically trained foresters. 



In tree-cutting in the crown forest GuUberg, 

 in the province of Ostergotland, of south Swe- 

 den, there was cut down a 56 years old pine 

 that bore a fresh living branch of spruce of 51 

 years at 5 feet from the ground. A nearer in- 

 vestigation showed that the spruce branch was 

 really grafted on the pine in a natural way and 

 has lived so without communication with the 

 mother spruce at least 14 years. 



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