AMERICAN FORESTRY 



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cations exactly even to the number and 

 range of the lot, and whether they were be- 

 ing attended to or not. With a plane fires 

 can be reported when the first wisp of 

 smoke rises and it is perfectly possible for a 

 plane to land a man or men at a lake near 

 a fire to put it out and then go back and re- 

 port and if necessary bring men and a gaso- 

 line pump to the fire. With pigeons or wire- 

 less the report would be even quicker. A re- 

 port by plane would at the most mean only 

 one and a quarter hours flying. It is too 

 bad that the protective associations will 

 not employ planes. The cost of fire fighting 

 alone this season would have installed many 

 planes and the men necessary to operate 

 them and the timber lost would have paid 

 for such service for many years. 



The fire situation in British Columbia 

 and the Prairie Provinces seems not to 

 have been bad this year as few reports of 

 fire have come in. In Ontario the Fire 

 Protection system instituted a few years 

 ago seems to be working much better than 

 last year. Some complaints have been 

 made but the efficiency seems to be in- 

 creasing. In Nova Scotia the season has 

 been a very bad one. This Province has 

 been urged for a long time to appoint a 

 forester and to organize a proper protective 

 system but nothing has been done with the 

 result that much damage has been caused 

 this year. In New Brunswick there is an 

 efficient fire protection service, but this 

 seems to have broken down on account of 

 exceptional weather conditions and much 

 damage has been caused both in the forest 

 and by the burning of settlements and 

 summer resorts. 



Much of the damage caused this year 

 has been due to fishermen. Many of these 

 seem to be men who were out of work and 

 having nothing else to do went fishing. 

 There seems to be only one answer to a 

 problem of this kind and that is to com- 

 pel every man who goes into the woods 

 for any purpose to first obtain a permit 

 from the local fire-ranger. This would 

 cost no money and would work no hardship 

 and it would at the same time make peo- 

 ple more careful as there would be abso- 

 lute proof that they were in a certain lo- 

 cality and if a fire started there they would 

 be charged with setting it. The Quebec 

 Government was urged by the lumbermen 

 two years in succession to pass such a law 

 but they refused on the ground of the 

 possible political consequences. The hold- 

 ers of licenses to cut crown timber were 

 told that they had all the rights of tenants 

 and could forbid anyone to enter on lands 

 under lease or make the taking out of a 

 permit a requisite. Of course the indi- 

 vidual lumbermen and even the protective 

 associations hesitate to take such a step as 

 disgruntled individuals might set incendiary 

 fires. If it were the law no one would think 

 anything of it and the associations could 

 see that it was enforced. Strong pressure 



will be brought on the Government this 

 coming session of the legislature to enact 

 such a law and it is hoped that it will be 

 successful. 



Mr. G. C. Piche, Chief Forester of Que- 

 bec and Mr. Edward Beck of the Cana- 

 dian Pulp and Paper Association have just 

 returned from a trip to Scandinavia, France 

 and England, where they have been looking 

 over forests and into forestry conditions. 

 Mr. Beck has written a very interesting 

 series of articles for the Canadian papers, 

 which have been widely published and 

 which have been read with great interest. 

 There are rumors of a reorganization of 

 the Forestry Department in Ontario. This 

 is badly needed and it is to be hoped that 

 men will be chosen who have not only 

 technical but business ability and who will 

 be free from political strings. This great 

 Province has great natural wealth and the 

 conduct of its forest policy leaves a great 

 deal to be desired. There is needed a De- 

 partment of Forestry free in all its 

 branches from political patronage, with 

 a continuous and consistent policy. There 

 is great need to revise the method of tim- 

 ber sales and the collection of dues on 

 timber cut on Crown Lands. A Commis- 

 sion is now investigating this and much 

 carelessness has come to light which must 

 have meant a large loss to the Province 

 in revenue. Scaling regulations need to 

 be changed and the scalers to be freed 

 from dependence on the lumbermen. The 

 fire protective system needs to be much im 

 proved and the most excellent ideas of 

 the Premier on reforestation should be put 

 into operation without delay. 



Almost all the wood-using industries are 

 overstocked with wood and there will be 

 very little cutting of timber this winter. 

 Many men who earn their living in tl^e 

 woods w'U be without work this winter 

 and there will be a very consider^Ij^e tail- 

 ing off in revenue to the Provincial Gov- 

 ernments. 



FORBES HEADS SOUTH'S NEW FOR- 

 EST STATION. 



R. D. Forbes, Louisiana State Forester 

 for several years, will serve as director 

 of the southern forest research and 

 experiment station of the Forest Serv- 

 ice. Congress provided an appropriation 

 which became available July i, and the se- 

 lection of Mr. Forbes is recognition of his 

 standing as a successful and thoroughly 

 competent forester, and of his administra- 

 tive ability. 



For the present the headquarters of the 

 new station will be in New Orleans. He 

 will begin his new duties at once, with a 

 staff of three trained technical experts as- 

 signed from the Washington offices. 



It is believed that V. H. Sonderegger, 

 who has been Mr. Forbes' assistant in the 

 State forestry work, will succeed him as 

 State forester of Louisiana. 



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