has supplanted the native's idea and also the primitive lum- 

 berman's that the lumber areas would last as long as people 

 now living demanded it, and that nature would supply an 

 alternative. Man must assist nature in supplying the alter- 

 native, and this is being done by forest preservation. 



How C. P. R. Guards Its Lands. 



"I would now call your attention to what we are doing for 

 the protection of our own timber tracts in British Columbia. 

 In the Cranbrook district we have some 543,486 acres in 12 

 tie reserves. On these reserve mounted patrols have been 

 established ; on three of them trails are being cut out to make 

 them easier of access; and on four of them telephone com- 

 munication is being established. I might also mention that 

 on the largest of these reserves the operation of burning the 

 logging slash was carried out with great success during the 

 month of May. 



"These facts should convince you that in the practice of 

 progressive forestry methods the Canadian Pacific Railway 

 Company is really in advance of the provincial authorities 

 who make the forest laws for it to observe." 



The Minnesota Forest Service has just published a two color 

 canoe map of northeastern Minnesota, ivith portages and principal 

 routes marked. Copies will be furnished free to anyone con- 

 templating a vacation trip in that region. Address The Forester, 

 State Capitol, St. Paul, Minn. 



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