Canadian Forestry Journal, February, 1920 



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QUESNEL RIVER— FALL OX NORTH FORK. 

 About two miles below Cariboo lake. Attempt to consti'uct fish ladder seen on left. 



CONDITIONS IN PRAIRIE PROVINCE FORESTS 



By H. C. Wallin, Chief of Surveys, Dominion Forestry Branch. 



V/e have examined in Manitoba altogether 

 46.272 square miles. This area covers the 

 country from the settled districts northwards to 

 about township 58, east of Lake Winnipeg, and 

 to township 51 west of said lake and Lake 

 Winnipegosis. It also includes the country 

 adjacent to the Hudson's Bay Railway, and the 

 Riding Mountain, Duck Mountain, and Porcu- 

 pine No. 1 Forest Reserve. In the following 

 estimate, these reserves and the country along 

 the H. B. Railway are not included. The area 

 to which the figures, I now give, refer is there- 

 fore 30,340 square miles. Of this 24 per cent 

 IS timbered (posts, poles, included) 



36' ', recent burn or covered with young re- 

 production ; 



35'; muskeg; 

 5'i grassland, water or cultivated. 



Of the timber, approximately 25,000,000 

 cords, about 30 per cent is poplar, 25 per cent 

 jack pine, 25 per cent spruce, and the remain- 

 ing 16 per cent is tamarack, birch and poplar. 



IN SASKATCHEWAN. 



In Saskatchewan the total area examined is 

 27,504 square miles, covering a tract reaching 

 from the settled district northwards to about 

 township 66. If we deduct the area of the for- 

 est reserves, with the exception of the Big River 

 Reserve, we have an area of about 20,000 



square miles, covering the country around Big 

 River, Beaver River, Waterhen Lake, Dore Lake". 

 Montreal Lake, Candle Lake, and Amish Lake' 

 Of this - 



41 ' , is timbered; 



18', is burn; 



33^ is muskeg, and 



8''^ is grassland, water, etc. 



The amount of timber per square mile is here 

 greater than in Manitoba, no doubt due to the 

 fact that a lesser area has been burned over in 

 recent years. The total number of cords avail- 

 able is estimated to be between 40 and 30 

 million cords. Of this about 75 per cent is 

 aspen and poplar, 13 per cent spruce. 10 per 

 cent jack pine, and 2 per cent tamarack, birch 

 and balsam. 



alberta's forests. 

 In Alberta, we have examined 63.000 >quare 

 miles covering the Rocky Mountain Forest Re- 

 serve, the Grand Prairie and Clear Hills Dis- 

 trict, the Peace River Block, the country be- 

 tween the Athabasca River and Lesser Slave 

 Lake, the Pembina Mountain, Lie la Biche. 

 Christina Lake, and Cold Lake Districts, leav- 

 ing out the Rocky Mountain Forest Reserve. 

 This area occupies 41.^71 square miles, of 

 which 



