Canadian Forestry Journal, Fchrucry, 1920 



65 



CANON ON WILLOW RIVER, B.C. 



,'ge.sted tlevelopment for Prince George hydro- 

 electric .supply 



NECHAKO RIVER, B.C. 

 Graiiil canon above outlet from Cheslatta lake. 



GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS and ADJOINING FORESTS 



It has always been a queer anomaly that the 

 jCana^ian Government should make fire preven- 

 ition laws applicable to the company-owned 

 lines, and not to Government railways. What- 

 ever betterments in fire protection on Govern- 

 inent railways has come about is due to more 

 )r less personal and local arrangements be- 

 wren provincial forest protective organizations 

 ind government railway executive officers. 

 I This, of course, does not apply to the former 

 Canadian Northern lines which have retained 

 htMr efficient protective arrangements under the 

 K'w form of management. At the meeting of 

 In- Quebec Forest Protective Association at 

 Viontreal, January 28th, the following resolu- 

 lon was passed: 



"That delegates be appointed from the pro- 

 iiice of Quebec to accompany those from the 

 )!ovinces of Ontario and New Brunswick who 



will place before the Federal Government the 

 desirability and urgent necessity of placing un- 

 der the jurisdiction of the Board of Railway 

 Commissioners those railroads which are not 

 now subject to that Commission with regard to 

 forest protection. 



"That a copy of this resolution be forwarded 

 to the Governments of the Province of Quebec. 

 Ontario and New Brunswick, as well as to the 

 Canadian Lumbermen's Association, accompan- 

 ied by a request that they give their support to 

 the said resolution. 



"That the Government of the Province of 

 Quebec be petitioned to place all owners of 

 private forest lands amenable to the obligations 

 and penalties contained in Clause 1641 of the 

 Revised Statutes of the Province of Qubec, 

 which now are only applicable to the owners of 

 lands under license." 



