Canadian Forestry Magazine, Augnsi-Sepfeniber. 1920. 



395 



A New Body: 



The Empire Forest 



Association 



One of the most promising develop- 

 ments of the recent Imperial- Forestry 

 Conference held at London, Eng-land. 

 was the formation of an Empire Forest 

 Association, the specific purpose of 

 which will be "to promote anl develop 

 public interest in Forestry throughout 

 the Empire." 



The headquarters of the society will 

 l)e in ^ on'^on, and membership will be 

 open to oroanizations. firms and inli- 

 fhvi'rals interested in forestrv or the 



commercial utilization of timber and 

 other forest products. 



The objects as set forth in a prelimin- 

 ary document are: 



To create interest in and circulate in- 

 formation relating to forestry amongst 

 all classes in the British Empire. 



To bring about better public recogni- 

 tion of the identity of interest between 

 continuous timber supplies and system- 

 atic forest management and to spread 

 information relating to the commercial 

 utilization of Empire-grown timbers. 



What the burning over of slash-covered ground looks like from the air. A pholoi^raph taken by one of 

 the Laurentide ompany's seaplanes of a slash-burning at the Proulx Nurseries, July, 1920. 



