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Canadian Forestry Journal, February, 1920 



SIR LOMER GOUIN'S ADVICE ON FORESTRY 



(From report of address to Canadian Pulp and Paper Association) 



They should not forget that their supply of 

 pulpwod was not inexhaustible. Formerly they 

 had been very exacting, but now they were using 

 balsam and short trees, to the advantage both 

 of their men and of their forests, which became 

 more productive as they were cleaned. 



Sir Lomer's advice was to only cut from tim- 

 berland what the timberland produced yearly. 

 This would mean increased expenditure, but 

 such expenditure would make the limits produce 

 more, and give them a chance to return sooner 

 to fields which had been exploited. 



It was not sufficient to reduce the volume of 

 cutting. They should think of restocking the 

 timberlands. If they would do their share m 

 this direction, the Quebec Government would do 

 its share, and a big share (applause). He had 

 heard pessimistic views about the forests, but he 

 had great faith in their future. Quebec Pro- 

 vince had more than half the pulpwood supply 

 of Canada, and the largest extent of pulpwood 



forest left m the world, and this forest, efficient- 

 managed, could be made to produce enormous 

 quantities for ever. 



The Quebec Government proposed making an 

 inventory of the virgin forests, and had estab- 

 lished forest posts at Hamilton Bay, Ungava 

 Bay, and James Bay, which it was proposed 

 to connect by wireless and supply with airplanes. 



They realized the importance of keeping 

 Quebec produce for Quebec mills, and v/ould 

 not hesitate, if necessary, to limit cutting ^o the 

 use of mills in the province. 



They had created schools in the cities of 

 Quebec and Montreal to meet the need for 

 highly trained technical men, and if a school 

 of paper-making were required, they would give 

 it. He would ask in return that as a good in- 

 vestment, the manufacturers should do all pos- 

 sible to encourage these schools. By so doing 

 they would help the recruiting of the best art- 

 isans and technical men for their w-ork. 



AX OLD WHU'J'ING i'tjST AT ANNAPOLIS ROYAL, N(.>VA Si_'(.)T[A. 

 An liistorical group of willows, the centre one having been planted during the French regime. 



