Canadian Forestry Journal, May, ig20. 240 



What Excess Growth in B. C. Really 



Means 



In a recent issue of the Pacific to point out that there was sufficient 

 Coast Lumberman, the report of the forest land on which young forests 

 Commission of Conservation on "The are more or less completely estab- 

 Forest Resources of British Colum- lished to grow about five times the 

 bia," was interpreted as saying that amount annually cut, but that the 

 the growth of new timber is five realization of this increment in con- 

 times the annual cut. Others than tingent upon the protection of the 

 the Lumberman have jumped to the young growth from fire.* 

 same general conclusion. Mr. Roland "We all know, however, that every 

 D. Craig, who played a chief part in year thousands of acres of valuable 

 preparing the report, has written an young growth are burned over, not 

 explanatory letter to the Lumberman only destroying the existing growth, 

 and Forestry Journal readers will be but seriously retarding or, in some 

 equally interested in its contents: cases, precluding subsequent natural 



"I notice in the leading editorial of reproduction. The public, and even 



your March issue that you refer to many of those entrusted with the 



me as claiming that the growth of protection of the forests have not in 



new timber is five times the annual the past appreciated the value of 



■cut. I should like to correct the im- young growth. Not many years ago, 



pression that has evidently been while travelling up the coa'st with a 



taken from my statement in this con- fire ranger, I called his attention to a 



nection in the report on the "Forests fire which was getting under way in 



of British Columbia." I was careful a .splendid young stand of fir about 



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