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Sir William Schlich on Canada 's Policy 



From a letter zuritten by Sir William T. Schlich, until recently head of the 



Forestry Department at Oxford University, to Mr. Elkvood Wilson, 



Chief Forester of the Laurentide Company, Grand Mere, P.Q. 



"You have 85% of the Canadian Forests as State Forests, but thev are not 



sufficiently protected and systematically managed. You must, under a proper 



forest lazv, demarcate out a sufficient area to be placed absolutely under the 



management of the Forest Department, zvhich must take steps to regulate the 



management, to thoroughly protect the arens, to prevent any settlement in the 



areas zvithout previous permission and consent of the Forest authority. Also, 



to prevent the springing up of nezv rights." 



Irrigation and Watershed Forests 



Editor's Note: — Trrioation will prove Marnoch, President of the T,ethbridge 



the magic wand over millions of acres of P>oard of Trade. Chairman of the Irri- 



agricultural land in Southern Alberta gation Development Association and a 



and Saskatchewan. It is well to bear in Director of the Canadian Forestry Asso- 



mind, also, that irrigation projects do not ciation, the render doubtless will 



create water; they distribute the con- hold in view tlio close relation of irri- 



tents of existing streams. These streams, gation and forest maintenance, also the 



as far as concerns the two prairie pro- fact that while it is possible to grow 



vinccs in question, take their rise on the trees on "dry" prairie, it is a much more 



Eastern slope of the Rockies and are de- certain and rapid process to grow them 



pendent for their proper regulation on on irrigated land. 



the protective ground cover provided by ■ 



Ihc forests. Wherever the sources of Earming under inicaiiiMi has proved 



streams are bared of forests, the Spring so successful and profit.ahle in the areas 



"run-off" of melted snow and raitis east and south of l.etlibridge where it 



rushes without obstruction to the lowest lias been increasingly practiced during 



levels, overflowing the river banks, wash- the past fifteen to twenty years that one 



ing away the best soil of fanns and might wonder why the demand for the 



leaving a weak and insufficient flow of extension of the use of the mountain 



water fi^r the later months wlien most stream waters has not hitherto been more 



re(|uired. clamant. The reason is simply this — 



In ixM-nsing the rollowing interesting that grain growing on dry land, in spite 



excei-i)fs from ;ui adih-ess b\- Mr. G. R. of the drawbacks of an erratic climate. 



