for the planting of forest trees until the forest fire 

 hazard has been removed. We must eliminate the 

 forest fire menace before we can begin to reforest in 

 earnest. Furthermore, we must stop these fires in 

 order to save the remaining timber we now have, 

 and it is only by a united effort throughout the Na- 

 tion that this can be brought about. 



Forestry Conference at London, England 



Delegates from all Parts of Empire Discuss Utilization 

 of Resources. 



Between sessions of the conference, tours were 

 arranged to representative forests in England, Scot- 

 land and Wales, both natural and planted, in order 

 that the delegates might become familiar with what 

 has been done in the past and what is under way 

 for the future, along forestry lines. 



The report of the United Kingdom, presented at the 

 Conference, bears out the general assertion that de- 

 mocracies are notoriously backward with regard to 

 forestry practice, at least until the pinch of necessity 

 becomes sufficiently felt to stimulate the adoption of 

 adequate measures looking to the re-establishment of 

 a forest cover on lands chiefly valuable for that 

 purpose. 



While the British Isles were formerly heavily for- 

 ested, clearing has progressed until it is estimated 

 that today there is in all England, Scotland and Ire- 

 land only 5,180 square miles of forest, or 4.3 per cent 



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