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Canadian Forestry Journal, April, iq20. 





Scores of public meetings are held by the Can- 

 adian Forestry Association in all parts of_ the 

 Dominion. Motion pictures are freely utilized. 



When a member pays his Journal 

 subscription and an extra dollar for 

 his membership fee, he not only pays 

 his own printing bill, but he puts one 

 dollar into a vital educational task. 



June the first is the date we have 

 set to get all the fees into the fold. 

 Today — This Day — is even more 

 timely. 



ceived at this office before June ist. 

 Is your fee held up — until "tomor- 

 row" — until a "handier" time? 



The Forestry Association belongs 

 to its members. All the 'Dividends' 

 of our work go to the Canadian 

 people. 



THIS ,also is worth remember- 

 ing: The Forestry Journal 

 costs us a dollar bill for paper 

 and printing alone for your twelve 

 issues. 



Not forgetting the faithful Forestry Exhibition 

 Car which for three seasons has done sterling 

 service in drawing public attention to forest 

 protection. 



Forest Fires and Canada's Fur Trade 



Revillon Freres Trading Company, 

 writing to the Canadian Forestry As- 

 sociation, state: "It is generally ac- 

 cepted as a fact in the north country 

 that many fur bearing animals are 

 destroyed in forest fires and it is cer- 

 tain that the Indians in their hunt- 

 ing operations neglect those parts of 

 the country which have been burned 

 over unless the brule is old." 



Alberta's forest fires in 1919 meant 

 $2,000,000 in destroyed wood alone. 



Saskatchewan lost $8,000,000 of 

 forest values in last year's fires. 



Ontario annually suffers severe 

 forest damage. 



200,000 acres in Quebec were burn- 

 ed over in 1919. 



What meaning has this for the fur 

 trade of Canada? 



"Canada is not only a great fur- 

 consuming country, but is also one 

 of the leading fur-producing countries 

 of the world, and, provided we take 

 proper measures to conserve our wild 

 life, is likely always to remain so," 

 observes the Commission of Conser- 

 vation. "Although here, as elsewhere 

 furs are often worn for ornament, our 

 rigorous winter makes furs almost a 

 necessity for many persons. The 

 farmer who drives many miles to the 

 elevator over the wind-swept prairies 

 appreciates the value of a warm coon- 

 ,skin, and knows that no covering de- 

 vised by the ingenuity of man is so 

 effective in excluding the cold as the 

 natural protection with which the wild 

 animals are endowed. 



"Before the war, we were import- 



