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CANADIAN DEPARTMENT 



ELLWOOD WILSON, SECRETARY, 



CANADIAN SOCIETY OF 



FOREST ENGINEERS 



There has been a serious depletion of the 

 ranks of professional foresters during the 

 past month, Millar, of the University of 

 Toronto, and Benedict and Lafon, of the 

 British Columbia Forest Service, having 

 joined American Forestry Units going over 

 seas. D. P. Brown, manager of the mills 

 of The Brown Corporation at LaTuque, has 

 gone to Scotland with a Forestry Unit, and 

 his cousin, S. Brown, is going to Platts- 

 burg to train. 



Dr. B. E. Fernow and Clyde Leavitt 

 spent a few days visiting Dr. Howe's 

 Camp and discussing the work which it is 

 doing in the investigation of cut-over pulp 

 wood lands. They also visited the nurseries 

 and plantations and some of the experi- 

 mental lumbering operations of the Laur- 

 entide Co., Ltd, at Grand' Mere, and then 

 went on to visit the Quebec Government 

 Nurseries at Berthierville and the planta- 

 tions on drifting sands at Lachute, both 

 under the direction of Mr. G. C. Piche, 

 Chief Forester of Quebec. Dr. Fernow re- 

 marked that the conditions in the lower 

 part of the St. Maurice Valley were prac- 

 tically identical with those in the western 

 Adirondacks. 



On July 31st a meeting of the Quebec 

 Forest Protective Association was held in 

 Quebec, at which all the Fire Protective 

 Associations were represented. Matters of 

 general interest were discussed and a con- 

 ference was had with Mr. Hall, the Chief 

 of the Quebec Government Fire Service. 

 A committee was appointed to see the 

 Minister of Lands and Forests to urge him 

 to make it obligatory for gum - pickers, 

 berry-pickers, hunters and fishermen, not 

 members of licensed clubs, and prospectors 

 to obtain permits from the district fire 

 rangers before going into the woods. The 

 Minister was also asked to scrutinize more 

 carefully applications for settler's lots, as 

 the high prices for pulpwood were begin- 

 ning to encourage speculators. 



Mr. Avila Bedard, Assistant Chief For- 

 ester, is making a tour of the province, 

 giving a series of lectures on forestry and 

 forest protection in co-operation with the 

 Canadian Forestry Association, assisted by 

 Mr. Black, the Secretary. At Grand' Mere 

 they had an audience of about 180 who 

 much enjoyed the lecture and the excellent 

 slides. 



A conference was held at Grand' Mere 

 on August 6, between Clyde Leavitt, For- 

 ester of the Dominion Conservation Com- 

 mission, G. C. Piche, Chief Forester of 

 Quebec, Dr. C. D, Howe, in charge of 

 field work for the Conservation Commis- 

 sion, and Ellwood Wilson, to discuss the 

 subject of the investigation of the condi- 

 tion of cut-over pulpwood lands and the 

 best manner of handling them and also the 

 best method of regulating the cut. The 



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