Forest Regeneration on Certain Cut-over 

 Pulpwood Lands in Quebec 



BY 



C. D. HOWE, PH.D. 



Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto 



1DEFORE describing certain investigations on cut-over pulpwood 

 *-* lands in Quebec, I desire to make a few remarks upon the 

 general situation. The necessities of war are driving home to us 

 the importance in our national economy of natural resources, 

 among which our timber resources take a leading place. There 

 never was, and, for years, never will be, a time when it is more 

 important for us to know what our timber resources really are, not 

 only in terms of board feet and cords, but also in terms of their 

 application to new uses. 



For thirty years, in meetings similar to this, we have been 

 discussing the management of our timber resources, but what have 

 we accomplished ? Of many facts, fundamental in the efficient 

 management of the timber resources of the country, we are woefully 

 ignorant. For example, what do we really know about the extent 

 of the timber and pulpwood resources of Ontario and Quebec, 

 though these provinces, combined, contain the largest timber- 

 producing area in Eastern Canada? Where else is there such a 

 large timbered area, containing so many valuable species, with such 

 wonderful transportation facilities, both natural and artificial, and 

 so near, relatively, to the great markets of the world? 



This great timber-producing area has been right in our back 

 yard all these years. It now has along its borders a population of 

 5,000,000, whose consumption of wood products is increasing every 

 day; and just over the fence are the populous Eastern States, with 

 their urgent demands for Canadian wood products. In the face of 

 constantly widening markets and increasing demands, have we 

 really made any methodical, sustained effort to determine the possi- 

 bilities and the potentialities of the timber resources of Ontario and 

 Quebec? Do we know whether this area can meet the demands 

 now being made upon it, to say nothing of the much greater demands 

 in the future? The United States is thoroughly alarmed over its 

 declining pulpwood supply; we are so ignorant of ours that we do 



