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1898. Other provinces impose an export duty on 

 pulpwood cut on crownlands, as does also Ontario. 



At present writing, a reciprocity agreement with 

 the United States is under contemplation, which 

 would admit wood products from Canada free of 

 duty an arrangement which whatever its commer- 

 cial advantages bodes no good for a conservative 

 forest policy. 



Meanwhile private limit holders, here and there, 

 had begun to see the need of conservative methods, 

 and by 1908, at least two large Paper and Pulp con- 

 cerns had placed foresters in charge of their logging 

 operations. 



5. Education. 



Until 1900, associated effort to advance forestry in 

 Canada had relied on the international American 

 Forestry Association. In that year, largely through 

 the officials of the Dominion Forestry Branch (Mr. 

 E. Stewart), the Canadian Forestry Association was 

 formed. 



This Association has grown more and more vigor- 

 ous, and having escaped the period of sentimentalism 

 which in the United States retarded the movement so 

 long, could at once accentuate the economic point of 

 view and bring the lumbermen into sympathy with 

 their effort. In 1905, a quarterly magazine, the 

 Canadian Forestry Journal was started -by the Asso- 

 ciation, making its work of instruction and propa- 

 ganda more effective. The technical literature, as 

 yet slightly developed is found mainly in Bulletins of 

 the Forestry Branch. 



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