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 The product of unregulated lumbering, a litter of slash, and inevitable forest fires. No seed 

 trees left no forest reproduction, wasted soil. The stumps show the size and density of the 

 original forest. Is this the best that Canada can do as absolute master of 90 per cent of the 

 total forest lands? 



PRACTICAL STUDIES IN FOREST MANAGEMENT 



The work on the permanent experimental 

 plot which has been laid out on the Nepisiquit 

 river, through the co-operation of the Bathurst 

 Lumber Company, the Conservation Commis- 

 sion and the Crown Land Department of New 

 Brunswick, is progressing very favorably. An 

 area of 490 acres of forest land has been set 

 aside for 25 years by mutual agreement and 

 the Bathurst Lumber Company is cutting this 

 area according to many various regulations and 

 systems laid down by Dr. C. D. Howe, of the 

 Conservation Commission with a view to finding 

 out what change may be made in the rate of 

 growth and nature of the reproduction resul ting 

 from each of the various methods of cuttmg. 

 On some of the area all the slash and brush is 

 being burned and all material in the tops suit- 

 able for pulpwood is being taken out. Mr. 

 Angus McLean, general manager of the Bath- 

 urst Lumber Company, is taking a keen interest 

 in this experimental cutting and thinning and 

 deserves much credit for making possible this 



valuable experiment even at an increased cost 

 for logging, it being one of the first and most 

 extensive experimental thinnings being under- 

 taken in Canada. Mr. John Lordon, superin- 

 tendent for the Bathurst Lumber Company, has 

 been in charge of the logging for the Bathurst 

 Lumber Company, and R. D. Jago, of the For- 

 est Service, laid the plot out and has been in 

 charge of the cutting for the Conservation Com- 

 mission. Mr. Herman Good, a returned soldier, 

 who won the Victoria Cross, has filled the pos- 

 ition of camp foreman over the 50 men em- 

 ployed in a very satisfactory manner. 



Dr. C. D. ^we, of the Conservation Com- 

 mission, picked out the site for the plot and 

 expects to visit the area for the third time in 

 December, after most of the cutting has been 

 completed. 



W. M. Robertson, B.Sc.F., of the Conser- 

 vation Commission, is in charge of the plot at 

 the present, having relieved Mr. R. D. Jago re- 

 cently, who had to return to Fredericton. 



