Canadian Forestry Journal. July, ig20. 



351 



SAVE THE FOREST 



smokers; 



EXTINGUISH THE ABOVE 

 BEFORE 0I5CAR0INC 



A Unique Fire Warning Notice — -{Courtesy Dominion Parks Branch). 



Trees vs. Drought 



Bv Prof. George Br^ce, LL.D., F.R.S.C. 



"It is the exjicctatii '11 of ihr writer'-- 

 relations exery auluniii llial wc .^i 1 nut 

 to spend a week 1 ir two > m a \i-it in llie 

 south-eastern ednu'i" ol Sa-^kalehewan, 

 which wr nsed l(i kiiiiw ;i< Assinihtjia. 

 That rei^ioii lyini;- In the south i.^i 

 Moose Mountain ha-- heeii a favorite 

 district for the f^rcwth of Imrscs and 

 cattle and of a fair aninunt of as^'ricul- 

 ture. h'or the last tw" years the ero]ts 

 have keen li.^ht nw aeeonnt of the \io 

 lence of the Dacota Sirocco which 

 swept over from the south of the Am- 

 erican boundary line. Lately the 

 writer paid the usual visit and saw the 



dania.ue i.lone hy the serious drouijhl 

 that has visited the district. North of 

 this region is the rauj^e (^i the Moos' 

 Moimtain or Mills. Moose Mountain 

 still retains its noticeahle heiiiht. dis- 

 playin<4' a consider.ahle (|uantity i^i trees 

 anil shruhhery. and the heiijhts still re- 

 tain the pretty lakes which make a 

 poiudar resort. 



The writer jonrneyeil north from Kis- 

 hy, a >tatiou on the C\anadian Pacific 

 kailw ay. Rei^ina branch, and saw in the 

 i>|)en fields, which are mostly cultivat- 

 ed by good farmers, this year as it was 

 last year, an almost complete failure 



