Canadian Forestry Journal, December, 1919 



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TIMBER SCALERS IN PERMANENT EMPLOY 



In the Forest Service of New Brunswick, all 

 timber scalers are in the permanent employ of 

 the Provincial Government. This is m con- 

 trast with the prevailing practice in Ontario. 

 Says G. H. Prince, Provincial Forester at Fred- 

 ericton: 



"One of the main duties of the forest service 

 is to secure a correct return of the logs cut 

 from Crown lands, and when it is stated that 

 usually there are 700 or 800 camps and the 

 cut exceeds 200 millions and 500,000 ties, it is 

 seen that it is considerable of a task. 



Each ranger is furnished with complete 

 plans of the Crown land in the district assigned 

 to him, and he is held responsible for the proper 

 count, scale and return of all material cut from 

 these lands each year. He is furnished with an 

 assistant or counter, who assists him during the 



scaling season. About 5,000,000 feet is con- 

 sidered sufficient work for any scaler. Each 

 camp is visited every tw^o weeks and the yards 

 of logs counted and scaled, marked and num- 

 bered. A report is furnished the Crown Land 

 Office every two weeks on the logs scaled and 

 counted at each of the 700 or 800 camps in 

 operation. This report is checked and a dup- 

 licate mailed at once to the licensees, so that 

 he is properly informed of any infractions of 

 cutting regulations, such as cutting undersized 

 timber, too high stumps. If the licensee dis- 

 putes the scale the logs are still there and a 

 check scaler is put on and the dispute immedi- 

 ately settled. This system, tried out last sea- 

 son, has given very satisfactory results, and will 

 be in use again this year, with only slight mod- 

 ifications. 



"EDUCATIONAL" PATROL TO MATCH FIRE FIEND 



B}) E. T. Allen, Forest Economist, Western Forestry) and Conser\'ation 

 Association, Portland, Oregon. 



At every one of our annual meetings for ten 

 years we have boasted of the effectiveness of 

 our western forest fire protective work. We 

 calculate the percentage relation of our losses 

 to the total timber supply guarded and it looks 

 pretty good. Our methods and organization 

 have improved every year. If they hadn't, 

 forest fires would haye about cleaned out this 

 western country by this time. 



GROWTH OF POPULATION HAS INCREASED HAZARD. 



People don't realize this. They don't under- 

 stand that the growth of population and indus- 

 try throughout the forests has so multiplied the 

 fire hazard, while labor, cost, and other diffi- 

 culties have so hampered our defense, that it is 

 really a great achievement to have held our own 

 so well. The truth is that a tremendous forest 

 area with a dry summer climate is being de- 

 veloped; consequently filled with fire-spreading 

 activities of every kind, until it is becoming the 

 world's greatest fire trap. 



TEACHING THE PUBLIC ITS INTEREST IN FOREST 

 PROTECTION. 



We began ten years ago a campaign fairly 

 well divided between doing our own part and 

 teaching the public its interest in helping. By 



various educational devices we did a great deal 

 to improve public sentiment. Better fire laws 

 were passed, better appropriation obtained, and 

 more care with fire was observed. We have 

 perfected organization, equipment and methods 

 of detecting and fighting fire until we do more, 

 no doubt, with the money and men we have 

 than any one else does anywhere. 



NOT ON TOP OF THE FIRE PROBLEM. 



We have been, but it is getting too strong 

 for us again, so we must go to the public. In 

 other words there must be a fire rally. 



SOUND THE ALARM ! 



Not enough money is being spent to safe- 

 guard life and property. There must be belter 

 state and federal appropriations. 



FIRE LAWS MUST BE MADE TO MEAN AS MUCH AS 

 LAWS AGAINST OTHER CRIMES. 



There must be officers to enforce the lorost 

 laws and indifference must not sjielter the guilty. 

 This whole subject must be brought betore the 

 people, legislatures and Congress, so it gets the 

 attention it must, if this country is not to go 

 up m smoke some dav. 



