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CANADIAN DEPARTMENT 



BY ELLWOOD WILSON 



PRESIDENT, CANADIAN SOCIETY OF FOREST ENGINEERS 



'"F HE forest protective associations in 

 the Province of Quebec are keeping 

 up their record for progress and The 

 St. Maurice Association has decided to buy 

 two flying boats and their equipment for 

 use during the coming season. A commit- 

 tee has been appointed and tenders have 

 been asked for. Stations for housing the 

 machines will be built together with a cen- 

 trally located machine shop for the repair 

 of the Association's mechanical equipment, 

 which now consists of railway gasoline 

 speeders, automobiles, motorcycles and 

 motor driven pumps. The motorcycles have 

 proved a very marked success during the 

 past season. The usual type was employed 

 except that they were geared down and 

 an especially heavy front fork was used. 

 These machines can go over the rough- 

 est roads, they can carry in the side-car 

 a motor driven pump with 600 feet of hose 

 and are much more economical to operate 

 than automobiles. 



The St. Maurice Association has com- 

 pleted its season's work, having extin- 

 guished seventy-four fires which burnt over 

 an area of 3,443 acres, or .041 of 1 per 

 cent of the area patrolled. The total cost 

 was 7-20 of a cent per acre and the total 

 cost of extinguishing fires which required 

 extra labor besides that of a ranger was 

 $936. Although wages and equipment cost 

 more than in previous years the assess- 

 ment per acre was not raised. 



Mr. D. C. A. Galarneau, late forester for 

 Algoma Central Railroad, has accepted a 

 position with the St. Maurice Paper Com- 

 pany of Three Rivers. Professional for- 

 esters are proving their worth to the big 

 paper and pulp companies. 



On December 10th a forestry confer- 

 ence was held by the Canadian For- 

 estry Association and the Members of 

 the Government of Nova Scotia. It is 

 hoped that as a result of this meeting a 

 Forest Service along the lines of that lately 

 established in New Brunswick will result. 

 Such a service is badly needed and will be 

 a great asset for the Province and will 

 bring it into line with development in the 

 rest of the Dominion. 



Among the cause of fires in one of our 

 Provinces we find "Campers and Tour- 

 ists" and the list of fires attributed to 

 them is quite large. Unfortunately a large 

 number of these are Americans, and the 

 writer takes this opportunity of calling the 

 attention of all our friends who visit this 

 side of the line in the summer to visit the 



beautiful north country to the damage they 

 do thoughtlessly. It is realized that we 

 have only to direct attention to this mat- 

 ter to ensure its absolute elimination. The 

 greatest offence is in failing to extinguish 

 camp fires. 



Next year the Canadian Forestry Jour- 

 nal will appear in a new dress and in 

 enlarged and improved form. The Cana- 

 dian Forestry Association is rapidly grow- 

 ing in membership and influence and its 

 field of usefulness is constantly broaden- 

 ing. 



Owing to the closing of munition fac- 

 tories the amount of labor available for 

 woods operations has been somewhat in- 

 creased and the outlook for normal pro- 

 duction somewhat bettered. However the 

 cut of both lumber and pulpwood is likely 

 to be less than usual. 



The plans for the opening of a new 

 Forest Products Laboratory in British 

 Columbia are progressing favorably and it 

 will soon been under way. The Dominion 

 Government will co-operate with the Uni- 

 versity of British Columbia in its installa- 

 tion. 



The Canadian Government has started 

 a five months course in Forestry at the 

 University of British Columbia for re- 

 turned soldiers, to fit them for rangers and 

 for Government work. Mr. E. J. Hanzlik 

 will be in charge of the work. The course 

 opened November 1st and will continue 

 until March 31st. This is a most excel- 

 lent idea as the crying need has been in 

 Canada for competent men to fill ranger 

 positions. It is to be hoped that something 

 of the kind can be undertaken in the East. 



The work done by the new Fire Protec- 

 tion Service in Ontario during the past 

 season has been excellent and shows great 

 improvement over previous conditions. 

 The organization is now complete and in 

 fine running order. The equipment is com- 

 plete and the system of supervision and 

 reports excellent. There is still great dan- 

 ger from the new settlers in the "clay 

 belt" owing to the rapid clearing of large 

 areas of land. The permit system is work- 

 ing well, but so many fires for clearing 

 are necessary that their rigid control is 

 very difficult. The time has come when 

 fire protective agencies, Government or co- 

 operative, must take some steps toward 

 themselves burning debris for settlers 

 and loggers, simply as a preventive 

 measure. If slash burning could be un- 

 dertaken by such agencies instead of being 

 left to the settler and the lumberman a 



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great saving in the cost of extinguishing 

 fires would be accomplished ; and, as the 

 cost of this work would be charged to 

 protection instead of to logging operations, 

 the objection of the Woodlands Depart- 

 ments to cleaning up the woods would dis- 

 appear. It is fairly certain that if all 

 logging slash was burnt after the opera- 

 tions were finished and before the danger 

 season arrived, forest fires would almost 

 disappear. Fires in virgin stands are com- 

 paratively rare under present protective 

 measures. The great majority occur in 

 cut-over land and on old burns, and these 

 fires are extremely difficult to fight and 

 spread rapidly over large areas. Some 

 work along these lines will probably be 

 undertaken next season as an experiment. 



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