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CANADIAN DEPARTMENT 



BY ELLWOOD WILSON 

 PRESIDENT CANADIAN SOCIETY OF FOREST ENGINEERS 



ON the twentieth of September there 

 was held at the Windsor Hotel in 

 Montreal, the first regular meeting of 

 the Woodlands Section of the Canadian 

 Pulp and Paper Association, which was 

 organized last February. There is much 

 significance in the formation of this sec- 

 tion, as it brings together the practical 

 woodsmen and responsible heads of wood- 

 lands operations who furnish the raw 

 material for the immensely important pulp 

 and paper industries. In the past these 

 men have been concerned only with the 

 delivery to the mills, at as low a cost 

 as possible, of the logs necessary for the 

 mills. They have never given the future 

 a thought, or if they have they have said 

 "What do we care what happens in 25 or 

 30 years, let our successors attend to that." 

 They have not been to blame in this atti- 

 tude as their work has been judged solely 

 on a basis of cheap production. Get us 

 cheap logs, has been the order. Now that 

 the price of labor and supplies has advanced 

 so much and the timber is rapidly growing 

 more inaccessible and of poorer quality, 

 they are beginning to look ahead a few 

 years and are taking an interest in the 

 future. This naturally brings them into 

 touch with the man who understands these 

 matters, the forester, and they are asking 

 him what can be done to insure a supply 

 of logs for the future. This is certainly 

 a good thing and it is fine to see how these 

 men are tackling the problem. Great 

 strides may be expected in Canada in the 

 near future due to the co-operation of all 

 those interested in the exploitation and 

 conservation of the forests. There is no 

 sentiment about it, but only the desire to 

 perpetuate and use properly, what is one 

 of Canada's most important natural re- 

 sources. 



Dr. Swaine, the Dominion Entomologist, 

 reports that an insect which has hitherto 

 only attacked the cultivated species of 

 white birch, has now attacked the birches 

 in the forest and will in all probability 

 exterminate them if some means is not 

 found of combating its ravages. He also 

 reports finding the worm which causes the 

 balsams to turn red and die. The proper 

 scientific study of our forests is one of the 

 most important pieces of work which has 

 been undertaken and will yield highly im- 

 portant economic results. 



The preliminary report of Dr. Howe on 

 the conditions of growth and reproduction 

 of conifers in the Province of New Bruns- 



wick, shows that they are very similar 

 to those ascertained last year in Quebec. 

 The new Forestry Service of New Bruns- 

 wick is progressing well and reflects credit 

 on Col. Logie, who for years has been 

 working to establish a rational system of 

 forest management for the Provincial 

 lands. New Brunswick is now in some 

 respects ahead of all the other Provinces 

 in the Dominion. 



The St. Maurice Forest Protective Asso- 

 ciation reports for the season to date show 

 90 fires, which burnt 340 acres of merchant- 

 able timber, 425 acres young growth, 1,340 

 acres of cut-over land and 2,230 acres of 

 old burn. The total cost of extinguishing 

 these fires will amount to about $900, a 

 further reduction over last season, which 

 was the lowest on record. Only one arrest 

 was made for setting fires and the man was 

 fined. Much use has been made of motor 

 cycles with side cars which can go where 

 automobiles cannot and use less gasoline. 

 Their cost of upkeep is also lower. 



On August 20th, after a meeting of the 

 members of the Newsprint Service Bureau 

 in Montreal, some of the members, Messrs. 

 G. M. Knowlton, E. B. Sterling, Prof. C. 

 T. Hamill, R. O. Sweezy, J. S. Bates, R. S. 

 Kellogg, A. L. Dawe, Beck and Ellwood 

 Wilson, made an automobile trip to the 

 Quebec Government Nursery at Berthier- 

 ville. Here they were met by the Chief 

 Forester, G. C. Piche, who welcomed them 

 on behalf of the Minister of Lands and 

 Forests and showed them the very excel- 

 lent nursery. Here trees are raised for 

 sale to those reforesting on a large scale 

 and also for farmer's woodlots and orna- 

 mental planting. 



The writer has just returned from a most 

 interesting and successful meeting of the 

 Society for the Protection of the New 

 Hampshire Forests at Dover, New Hamp- 

 shire. The Secretary, Mr. Philip W. Ayres, 

 deserves great credit for the interesting 

 meetings which he organizes. Col. Graves 

 gave some very interesting accounts of 

 the work in France and called atten- 

 tion to the necessity for better forest 

 utilization and management on this con- 

 tinent and expressed the opinion that when 

 our men return from France where they 

 have had an opportunity to see the value 

 of forests in war and the wonderful way 

 in which France has built up her forest 

 resources and conserves them even under 

 the stress of war conditions, there will be 



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