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Vancouver, B.C., June i8, 1920. 

 Editor, Canadian Forestry Magazine, 



Ottawa, Ont. 

 Dear Sir: 



Your magazine has been a welcome addition to my waiting-room 

 table for over a year. I believe it is read more than any of the others. 

 It has three good things; brightness, cogency and pictures. It avoids 

 three poor things : dullness, long articles and lack of purpose. 

 Wishing you every success, 

 Yours truly, 



ERNEST P. FEWSTER, M.D. 



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Imperial Forestry Conference 

 (Continued.) 



was mooted. It was felt that as' the for- 

 estry agencies in all parts of the Empire 

 have a focal point of mutual interest, 

 with problems sometimes strikingly simi- 

 lar, there ought to be a common channel 

 for intercommunication and a clearing 

 house for information. The best ad- 

 vance advertisement of success for the 

 Imperial Forestry Bureau was indeed 

 the Conference itself. Delegates realiz- 

 ed at the first session what an excellent 

 plan it had been to project the Empire's 

 forestry problems upon a single screen, 

 to demonstrate the common objective 

 shared by the foresters of Scotland and 

 the foresters of Canada, the man at 

 Dehra Dnn and the man at Wellington. 

 Accordingly, the Imperial Forestry 

 Bureau sprang into being, the precise 

 objects defined as follows: 



(1) To collect, co-ordinate and dissemin- 

 ate information as to: — 



(a) Forest education, research, policy 

 and administration; the constitu- 

 tion, orp^anization and manage- 

 ment of forests; and matters 

 arising out of or incidental to the 

 growing of timber ^and other 

 forest products. 



(b) The resources, utilisation, con- 

 sumption and requirements of 

 timber and other forest products. 



(2)- To ascertain the scope of existing 

 agencies with a view to avoiding 

 unnecessary overlapping. 



(3) To devise means whereby exist- 

 ing agencies can, if necessary, 

 be assisted and improved in the 

 accomplishment of their respect- 

 ive tasks. 



(4) To supplement these agencies, if 

 necessary in order to obtain any 

 information not now collected 

 which may be required for the 

 purposes of the Bureau. 



(5) To advise on the development of 

 the forest resources of the Em- 

 pire or of particular parts there- 

 of, in order that such resources 

 may be made available for the 

 purposes of Imperial Defence or 

 of Industry or of Commerce. 



It is proposed that the Imperial For- 

 estry Bureau should be established at 

 London, under a director and an advisory 

 council and that the Dominions should 

 assist in the financial maintenance and 

 share in the actual direction of the in- 

 stitution. 



Forest Journeys 



Had the Imperial Conference consist- 

 ed onlv of narhamentarv sessions from 

 morning until night, there might have 

 been complaint that forestry was solemn 

 business indeed . That, however, is not 

 the custom of Old Conntrv organizers. 

 Interspersed with the discussion at Ton- 



