Canadian Forestry Journal, October, 1919 



421 



storage piles which are needed for the winter 

 monthes and which tie up large sums of money 

 can be done away with, transportation and log- 

 ging costs can be materially cut, and a better 

 and more uniform quality of raw material can 

 be produced. The cost is by no means pro- 

 hibitive and the production per acre can be 

 multiplied by eight. 



The Laurentide Company, Limited, was the 

 first Canadian company to investigate the ques- 

 tion, and had farsightedness and courage 

 enough to tackle the problem "man fashion," 

 and others are following in its footsteps. A 

 determined effort to eliminate forest fires was 

 begun in !908 by the formation of a special de- 

 partment for that purpose and when the con- 

 struction of the National Transcontinental Rail- 

 way was begun a co-operative association was 

 organized to prevent fires along the right-of- 

 way and this developed into the St. Maurice 

 Forest Protective Association, which has so 

 reduced the fire hazard that the loss of mer- 

 chantable timber is now less than one-hundredth 

 of one per cent. 



Using Two Seaplanes. 



This association is experimenting with two 

 seaplanes, loaned by the Depaitment of Naval 

 Service, in the discovery and fighting of forest 

 fires and in mapping timber limits, and the ex- 

 periment so far shows that they will be of the 

 greatest practical value. 



In 1908 the first experimental plantations 

 were made and these were continued on a small 

 scale until 1914, when about 150,000 trees 

 were planted. The nursery was enlarged in 

 1915, and each year since then, until now the 

 number of trees for planting will reach two 

 millions in 1921. This year one million trees 

 were planted. It is planned to plant annually 

 a little more than the number cut and to build 

 up an area of approximately 400 square miles 

 of planted timber which will be cut on a rota- 

 tion of forty years, that is one-fortieth of the 

 area will be cut each year and immediately 

 planted; this will supply timber in perpetuity 

 to the mill. 



KxPERIMENTAL PlOTS. 



As very little is known about the conditions 

 of growth of the different pulpwood species on 

 different soils, experimental plots have been laid 

 out and planted and careful studies are being 

 made of just what takes place. An experi- 

 mental area has also been laid out m tin- iia 

 tural forests and growth under natural con 

 ditions is also being studied. Experimental cut- 

 tings are also being made to find out the efTecl 



of different logging methods and to improve 

 them if possible. This latter work is being car- 

 ried out under co-operation with the Commis- 

 sion of Conservation and the Department of 

 Lands and Forests of Quebec, and much valu- 

 able information has already been secured. 



"If we should begin to-day to protect our 

 cut-over lands from fire and to use wholly prac- 

 tical methods of forestry to secure reproduction 

 after logging, we could secure in the next 50 

 or 60 years an annual production of over 

 60,000,000,000 feet a year without lessening 

 our forest capital. And this would be done 

 without devoting to tree growth land that is 

 not chiefly valuable for that purpose." — 

 — Hcnrv S. Craves, United States Forest Service. 



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