OUR TWENTIETH BIRTHDAY WITH TEN THOUSAND MEMBERS 



The Canadian Forestry Association nill be twenty years old on January 15lh, 1920. 



On March 7th, 1901, the 'nembership was 244, and receipts $192.45. 



At December 1st, 1919, the membership totals over 10,000, and receipts for the 

 current year are about $18,000. The Association has made a membership growth in 1919 

 of about 2,700. 



The preliminary steps towards the formation of the Canadian Forestry Association 

 were taken by Mr. E. Stewart, then Chief Inspector of Forestry and Timber for the 

 Dominion (now of Toronto), who sent out a circular letter on January £th, 1900, to "> 

 number of men interested in the subject of forestry, asking them to meet at his ofB :£ 

 on the 15th of that month. At that meeting were presents Sir Henri Joly de Lotbi-i?re; 

 Saunders; Mr. William Litib; Mr. Thos, Southworth, Director of Forestry for Ontario; 

 Mr. E. Stewart; Prof. John Macoun, Assistant Director of the Geological Survey; Mr. 

 Little was elected Chairman, and Mr. Stewart, Secretary. 



ONTARIO MUST FACE THESE FACTS NOW! 



B^ Robson Blacif, Secretary, Canadian Forestry Association. 



As a matter of good business management, 

 New Brunswick, Quebec, and British Columbia 

 have placed the public-owned forest lands un- 

 der a united and technically-qualified ma'^age- 

 ment. The Dominion Government also charges 

 its Forestry Branch with the administration of 

 all timber sale business on the Dominion forest 

 reserves, in the west. 



In Ontario, aside from fire prevention, the 

 forest possessions are still handled on substan- 

 tially the plan of 1890. Revenues are collected 

 and a nominal supervision maintained over tim- 

 ber operations on licensed Crown timber lands, 

 as conducted by private companies. But in the 

 true sense of government management of pub- 

 lic-owned property, from the viewpoint of so 

 regulating cutting methods as to leave cut-over 

 areas in the best possible condition to produce 

 another crop, Ontario has yet to make a be- 

 ginning. 



FOR THE taxpayer's NOTICE. 



A very high percentage of the non-agricul- 

 tural forest lands of Ontario are public-owned. 

 The limit-holder is a lessee of cutting riglits. 

 His lease or license is renewed annually. He 

 owns little or none of the land on which the 

 timber grows. By retaining the land title, the 

 province has always reserved the authority io 

 impose such regulations as might be considered 

 essential to the public interest. It is signific.int 

 that the public management of lorests \n Or[- 



tar o aside from fire protection and chanp'es 

 in dues — has not altered materially since the 

 early days of exploitation. 



Bearing in mind the state's admitted respon- 

 sibility an:! legal authority in conserving the 

 public forest wealth, some further facts demand 

 consideration: 



The greater part of the provincial land area 

 is non-agricultural. Its productive ability is 

 limited, therefore, to timber growing, mineral 

 development and game production. Roughly, 

 this classification applies to the vast region 

 north of a line drawn from Ottawa to the 

 southern shore of Georgian Bay. with substan- 

 tial deletions here and there, as in the great 

 claybelt area along the T. & N.O. and parts of 

 the Canadian National Railways, parts of the 

 Rainy River region and elsewhere. Northward 

 and westward, to and beyond the height of 

 land, Ontario possesses a natural timber-grow- 

 ing estate of incredibly large economic value. 



HOW MUCH FOREST? 



The productive forest area of the province 

 is estimated at between 80 and 90 million acres, 

 containing about 150 billion feet of merchant- 

 able coniferous timber, made up mainly of 

 spruce, white pine, jack pine, balsam and tama- 

 rack, in addition to large quantities of poplar, 

 birch, maple and other hardwood.^ 



The most authentic estimates give the amount 

 of spruce and balsam available for pulp and 



