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1899 Appointment of E. Stewart as "Chief Inspector of Timber 

 and Forestry" in the newly created Dominion Forestry 

 Branch of the Department of the Interior. 



1901 Beginning of prairial planting under Dominion co-operation. 



1902 Dominion Forest Reserves, set aside by Governor in Coun- 

 cil, aggregate 4,082,000 acres. 



1905 Ontario Bureau of Forestry retransf erred to Department 

 of Agriculture, so as to annul its influence on forestry 

 in the Crownlands. 



1907 University of Toronto establishes a department of Forestry 

 under B. E. Fernow. 



1910 Forestry College at Quebec. 



1910 Entire East slope of the Rockies, from the international 

 boundary line northward to the 54th. parallel, is pro- 

 claimed as a Dominion Forest Reserve. 



The total area of the Canadian woodlands is, after E. 

 Stewart, 800 million acres, of which only 266 million acres 

 are stocked with timber, 



GERMANY. 



There does not and there never did exist any "German forest 

 policy'', initiated or stimulated or guided by the confederation 

 of states -known as "the German Empire". Whatever forestry 

 there exists in Germany, depends solely and exclusively on 

 state activity ; the Empire has not had any opportunity or any 

 cause to interfere with the forest policy of the twenty six states 

 composing it. 



The development of forest policy in the states composing the 

 empire is so diversified, that a general account only can be given. 



A forestry movement began, on a large scale, in or about 

 1750, when a general timber and wood famine was predicted, in 

 the absence of coal or of means of transportation. 



The mountain forests, at that time, had scarcely been touched 

 by the axe. 



The feudal system had prevented forest destruction, the feudal 

 lords wishing to maintain the forests as harbors of deer. The 

 foresters were hunting masters. 



About 1775, steps were taken by the leading state govern- 

 ments to secure a sustained vield from governmental forests. 



