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Canadian Forestry Journal, November, 1919 



Ahitihi Company Prepares to Handle its Forests Constructively 



Under the direction of Mr. H. G. Schanche, 

 forester, the Abitibi Power and Paper Company, 

 Iroquois Falls, Northern Ontario, are preparing 

 an ambitious programme for the handHng of 

 their woodlands and the regenerating of their 

 spruce supply on a scientific basis. The com- 

 pany formed a Forestry Division only this year 

 and has laid out its work under the general 

 heads of: Nursery, Engineering, Protection and 

 Investigation. 



The best available site has been selected for 

 a nursery at a point directly east of, and ad- 

 jacent to, Twin Falls, and here ten acres of 

 land have been cleared and prepared ready for 

 actual operations in the sprmg of 1920. It is 

 proposed to clear and prepare a similar t?n 

 acres annually until a maximum of fifty acres 

 is reached, and here will be developed the source 

 of supply for the reforestation branch. The 

 nursery will be placed on such a basis as to 

 give an annual yield of from one to two million 

 four-year-old trees, but as the first stock grown 



from seed will not be available to the reforesta- 

 tion branch until the springs of 1922 and 1923 

 respectively, it will be necessary to purchase 

 plantable stock of from three to four years in 

 age in order that the reforestation branch may 

 commence operations in the spring of 1920. 



The location of the planting sites, together 

 with detailed data on the exposure, slope, soil, 

 ground cover, percentage of natural reproduc- 

 tion and of species present, the drainage, the 

 character and amount of timber standing, the 

 presence of disease or insects which will tend 

 to destroy certain species, the approximate 

 amount of timber standing, the presence of 

 disease or insects which will tend to destroy 

 certain species, the approximate amount of 

 rainfall and snowfall and the fire hazard will all 

 be determined by the engineering branch 

 through an intensive reconnaissance of the limit. 

 This reconnaissance will furnish a full inventory 

 of the forested and barren lands on the limit 

 together with a detailed map. The field data 



Using the "jilanting-board" to plant tree.s at Grand'Mere, Quebec. The board, consisting of two 

 parallel strips with cross-pieces, is filled with seedlings, which are thus lifted 



bodily to the trench. 



