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Mk, Mil and maple, also tamarack, are of minor importance, and hence can 



be left out of the discussion at present. A good number of Canadian trees have been 



Mv introduced into Germany, notably the Douglas fir, which has proved the 



and the locust which yields admirable pit timber and has 



proved a profitable tree to grow. Others, such as cedar and yellow birch, have not been 

 fullv tested. Altogether planting experiments with 56 species are under way. 



From this it will be seen that not only is the forest in Germany thoroughly i 

 planted or reseeded when cut. but also new species are being added to make i 

 Btantly more useful and valuable to the community. 



The CHAIRMAN. It has been suggested that, instead of taking these three papers 

 up together. Mr. Bertram might follow now and the discussion of both papers be 

 taken up before Professor Loudon reads his paper. Taking that suggestion I would 

 call upon Mr. Bertram, if it is the wish of the Association, as I think it is. 



Mr. BERTRAM was loudly applauded on rising. He said : Mr. President and 

 gentlemen, the paper which I propose to read before the Association this afternoon 

 is on some phases of Forest Management in Ontario. About two or three weeks 

 ago I wrote this paper as I did not at that time expect to be present here to-day but 

 to be out of the city for some time, and it is rather a curious fact that during this time 

 this paper has had the singular felicity of having had some of its recommendations 

 adopted by the provincial authorities a rather odd circumstance. I do not know 

 whether to compliment the writer of the paper or the provincial authorities. 



A member Why not both ? (Laughter). 



Mr. BERTRAM. The department of forestry and the department of agriculture 

 have each adopted one of the recommendations made in this paper, and which I was 

 very glad to see, you may be sure. Now, I will confine myself to the simple question 

 of what should be done, without touching on any scientific significance. I will con- 

 fine myself to the question of practical forestry. 



FOREST MANAGEMENT IN ONTARIO. 



(President Collins Inlet Lumber Co., 

 IM [Chairman of the Dominion Transportation Commission. 



The most important feature within recent years of forest management in Ontario 

 has been the setting apart of certain areas of suitable territory as ' Forest Reserves. 7 



The first, though not spoken of strictly as a forest reserve, was created in 1893 

 as the Algonquin Park with an area of 1,109,383 acres, situated on the height of land 

 between the Ottawa River and its tributaries and the Georgian Bay waters. Then 

 followed, under the Forest Reserve Act in 1899, the Eastern Forest Reserve, being 

 part of townships north of the city of Kingston, containing about 80,000 acres of land 

 that had been lumbered over and was afterwards burned, but now carrying a heavy 

 crop of young pine. In 1900 by Order in Council the Sibley Reserve was set apart, 

 being a portion of the township of Sibley and including Thunder Cape, 45,000 acres, 

 more or less. On January 11, 1901, there was created the Temagami Reserve, com- 

 prising 1,408,000 acres, within which is the beautiful lake of the same name. Most 

 of the territory in this reserve is still covered with virgin pine and is of great value. 

 An extension to this reserve west and north was made on December 16, 1903, adding 

 2,368,000 acres, so that now the area of the Temagami Reserve is 3,776,000 acres. The 

 total area so set apart in the province of Ontario being 5,010,383 acres. 



