Canadian Forestry Journal^ May, ip20. 



253 



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say that our investigations showed 

 that out of approximately 149,000 

 square miles, which could be classi- 

 fied as forest land, only 52,000 square 

 miles carried timber of possible com- 

 mercial size an dquality. This leaves 

 97,000 square miles suiatble for the 

 growth of forests and on which there 

 is not a merchantable stand, but 

 there is a very considerable amount 

 of young forest already established. 

 At the low annual rate of growth of 

 100 board feet per acre, at which it 

 would take 100 years to produce 10,- 

 000 board feet per acre, this area 

 could produce 6,200 million feet. No 

 increment is to be expected on fully 

 stocked mature stands, but there are. 

 in addition to the above, 7,500 square 

 miles on the coast, and 23,800 square 

 miles in the interior on which there 

 are comparatively light stands of ma- 

 ture timber, and on which there is 

 also considerable young growing tim- 

 ber. 



"It must be remembered that a 

 large proportion of the reproduction 



in the province is comparatively 

 young and will not be merchantable 

 for 50 or 100 years, and that, even 

 then, it will not attain the size which 

 is demanded by the trade at the 

 present time. However, when it be- 

 comes more difficult to get the fine 

 old timber we have been accustomed 

 to, the standards will doubtless 

 change as they have elsewhere. 



"As pointed out in our report,^ we 

 have very little definite information 

 as to the extent of the natural repro- 

 duction or the rate of growth of the 

 forests under the different conditions 

 which prevail throughout the pro- 

 vince. Until careful research is con- 

 ducted along these lines, we can only 

 make broad estimates of the possi- 

 bilities and cannot say with definite- 

 ness what is taking place. 



"The Commission of Conservation 

 is now conducting extensive investi- 

 gations of the reproduction in the 

 pulpwood areas in Ontario, Quebec 

 and NcAv Brunswick. This work is 

 being carried on in co-operation with 



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