Canadian Forestry Magazine, November, iq2o 



521 



of forestry practice. One of the resolu- 

 tions adopted at the Imperial Forestry 

 Conference at London dealing witli 

 the situation in Canada, set forth that, 

 important as are researches in the tech- 

 nology of wood, it is of even greater 

 urgency to carry on investigation, on 

 an adequate scale, into such fundamental 

 questions as seeding and regeneration, 

 and rate of growth and outturn of 

 forest crops. 



In Canada, only a comparatively small 

 beginning has been made in this direc- 

 tion, due largely to lack of sufficient 

 funds, the scarcity of trainerl investiga- 

 tors, and an inadequate appreciation of 

 the need for such information, coupled 

 Avith pressure for the assignment of 

 cjualified technical men to administration 

 as distinguished from research. 



All this means that a great deal of re- 

 search must be carried on, if the neces- 

 sary fundamental nowledge is to be 

 gained. This, in turn, will require the 

 services of many trained investigators, 

 to say nothing of the many well-trained 

 and thoroughly experienced foresters of 

 mature judgment, in both i)ublic and 



private employ who will be necessary to 

 see that the information thus gained is 

 actually made effective on the ground, 

 to the end that the forests may be per- 

 petuated by wise use, instead of destroy- 

 ed through unregulated exploitation, as 

 has so generally been the case in the 

 United States, apart from the National 

 Forests, to say nothing of great areas 

 of the most accessible of our own non- 

 agricultural lands. 



It should be remembered that, so far 

 as Crown lands are concerned, it is the 

 respective Governments having jurisdic- 

 tion over these lands that are primarily 

 responsible for the absence or existence 

 of adequate restrictive cutting regula- 

 tions and for their enforcement, if there 

 be such. No general advance along the 

 line of scientific forestry practice on 

 Cnnvn lands is to be anticipated except 

 as prescribed by Governmental authority, 

 notwithstanding that progress in incHvi- 

 dual cases may take place on the initia- 

 tive of some of the more progressive 

 concerns. From this viewpoint, it is of the 

 greatest importance that every Govern- 

 mental agencv having to do with the ad- 



One of the permanent sample plots on the lands of the Bathurst T.umher Conipany, New Brunswick. The 

 ari-a in tlie foreground has been clean-cut and the tops lopped and left lying on the ground. Rapidity of 



decav under these conditions will he observed, from the viewpoint of ultinuife reduction of the tire hazard, 

 and careful observations will be recorded periodically of the extent and character of the natural regene- 

 ration which will take place on the area, and the results compared with, those on other areas where the 

 slash has been left untouched, and where it has been piled and burned. Similar studies will be made on 

 areas logged to dilTerent di.imeter limits, and all the results will be compared, with a view to determinin>f 

 the best methods of silvicultural treatment for these conditions. This project is being carried on, through 

 a co-operative arrangement between the Bathurst Lumber Company. New Brunswick Forest Service and 

 the Commission of Conservation. Photo by W. M. Robertson, in charge of project. 



