Control of Forests by Trained Foresters 



BY CLYDE LEAVITT 



Ontario Places Administration of Forests on Crown 

 Lands Under Practical Men. 



The opportunity for the beginning of a new era in 

 the forestry situation in Ontario was created by the 

 recent announcement of the Provincial Government 

 that henceforth the timber administration on Crown 

 lands will be under the Provincial Forestry Branch, 

 instead of comprising- a separate organization in 

 which no foresters were employed. This is the most 

 important development which has yet taken place in 

 the forestry situation in Ontario. 



By this action, assuming that its logical conse- 

 quences will follow, Ontario aligns herself with the 

 provinces of Quebec, British Columbia and New 

 Brunswick, which had already recognized the neces- 

 sity for taking thought for the future by making 

 foresters responsible for the technical administration 

 of Crown timber lands. A partial example had been 

 set by the Dominion Government at a still earlier 

 date, when the Dominion Forestry Branch was placed 

 in charge of the timber administration on Dominion 

 forest reserves in the west,, exclusive of licensed lands 

 or timber limits. 



Nova Scotia has practically no Crown timber lands, 

 her forests having passed into private ownership many 

 years ago. The need for a provincial forest service 



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