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did not produce much result. In 1907, a re-organ- 

 ization took place by introducing two professional 

 foresters educated at government's expense at Amer- 

 ican colleges of forestry who upon their return were 

 employed to supply the technical supervision of 

 cutting on licensed lands, and otherwise to forward 

 forestry reforms. In 1910, the logical sequence oc- 

 curred by placing the entire forest service except the 

 protection against fire under one of these technical 

 men as chief, with the other one as his assistant, and 

 a corps of three civil engineers, 40 forest rangers and 

 six scalers, besides 20 student assistants the first 

 organized provincial forest service in Canada, ad- 

 ministered under the Superintendent of Woods and 

 Forests in the Department of Crownlands.* 



In 1898, the Dominion government had also reco- 

 gnized the need of more technical administration by 

 instituting a Forestry Branch in the Department of 

 the Interior under a superintendent with a view of 

 developing improved methods. At first manned 

 without technical advisers, who were, indeed, not in 

 existence, gradually the professional element was in- 

 troduced, and the scope of the Branch enlarged, the 

 irrigation interests of the country being added. 

 Under the able guidance of the present director - 

 whose task under the political conditions surrounding 

 it is not an easy one this department may in a few 

 years also become fully organized with technical men, 

 of whom there are now seventeen employed, besides 

 student assistants. 



These various government agencies and other 



* See Report of Canadian Forestry Convention, 1911. 



