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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



CANADIAN DEPARTMENT 



BY ELLWOOD WILSON 

 PAST PRESIDENT CANADIAN SOCIETY OF FOREST ENGINEERS 



A LARGE number of annual meetings of 

 interest to forestry were held in Mon- 

 treal this year and very largely attended. 

 The Canadian Lumberman's Association 

 had a very successful meeting. The Can- 

 adian Society of Forest Engineers met, for 

 the first time, for a full day, and had a 

 most enjoyable and profitable meeting. The 

 officers elected were M. A. Grainger, of 

 British Columbia, president; Dr. C. D. 

 Howe, Dean of the Forestry Faculty of 

 Toronto University, vice-president; R. D. 

 Craig, of the Commission of Conservation, 

 secretary; and T. W. Dwiglit, Dominion 

 Forestry Branch, treasurer. The papers 

 read were, "Mutual Help and Salaries," 

 "Relation of Foresters to Logging Depart- 

 ments," "What Answer Can We Give When 

 We Aie Asked How Timber in Eastern 

 Canada Should be Cut by Pulp and Paper 

 Companies," "A Method of Forest Survey," 

 "Aerial Forest Surveys," "Forestry En- 

 gineering as a Profession." A good many 

 foresters from New England were present 

 and it is hoped that more American fores- 

 ters will come to the meeting next year. 



The Canadian Pulp and Paper Asocia- 

 tion held a very interesting and profitable 

 meeting and it is most encouraging to 

 note that the association placed itself most 

 emphatically on record as being in favor of 

 better forestry methods in logging, logging 

 for a sustained yield, better fire protection 

 and closer utilization. The association also 

 voted money for research work and much 

 good should come from this. The first 

 volume of the series of textbooks for use 

 in educational work among employes of 

 the mills was shown, that on mathematics. 

 This is an excellent book and every effort 

 has been made to have it thoroughly 

 practical, all the problems and examples 

 having a direct bearing on the work the 

 men find in their regular routine. The 

 succeeding volumes of the series will prob- 

 ably be ready before the end of the year. 



At the meeting of the Woodlands Sec- 

 tion of the Association a committee was 

 appointed to confer with the Quebec Gov- 

 ernment on the establishment of a Ranger 

 School to train men for work in the woods. 

 This school, it is hoped, will be established 

 by co-operation between the industry and 

 the Government and it will probably fol- 

 low somewhat along Swedish lines, in that 

 it will not be open to the general public, 

 but only to men nominated by the Govern- 

 ment or the companies, so that only those 

 who are thought fit to be rangers and who 

 are reasonably sure to continue in that 

 line of work will be trained. The training 

 to be given will be as practical as it is 



possible to make it and it is hoped that a 

 corps of trained woodsmen for use in fire 

 protection, woods inspection work and 

 scaling can be built up. The Government 

 will be asked to authorize such a school and 

 make an appropriation for it at the present 

 session of the legislature. A committee 

 was also appointed to co-operate with one 

 appointed by the American Pulp and Paper 

 Association to co-ordinate and encourage 

 experimental work in better logging and 

 utilization methods. A questionnaire is be- 

 ing prepared for distribution asking differ- 

 ent firms what kind of experiments they 

 are at present carrying on, and when this 

 information is received it will be digested 

 and those firms which are already working 

 along certain lines will be given all the in- 

 formation along those lines and may also 

 be given financial assistance by the other 

 companies. A resolution was also adopted 

 asking the Dominion Government to place 

 the Branches of the Canadian National 

 Railways, which are not already under the 

 Dominion Railway Board in matters of 

 fire protection, under the jurisdiction of 

 the board. 



The Quebec Forest Protective Associa- 

 tion, which is a federation of the Co-opera- 

 tive Fire Protective Associations, also met 

 and discussed the question of railway fire 

 protection. It was shown that the Na- 

 tional Transcontinental and the Intercolon- 

 ial Railways, both operated by the Domin- 

 ion Government were a great menace to the 

 forests, and were setting a great many 

 fires, their record in this respect being much 

 worse than that of privately owned roads. 

 A resolution was passed asking the Govern- 

 ment to place these two lines under the 

 jurisdiction of the Dominion Railway Com- 

 mission as regards fire protection regula- 

 tions. The Government of Quebec showed 

 again its desire to do everything possible 

 for its forests and to co-operate with the 

 lessees by offering to place all lands still 

 unlcased by the Government under the 

 Co-operative Fire Protective Associations, 

 paying the same fee per acre for protec- 

 tion as is paid by the lessees. This marks 

 a long step forward in fire protection. 



The Canadian Forestry Association held 

 its annual business meeting and also 

 passed a resolution in regard to railway 

 fire protection similar to those passed by 

 the other associations, and made plans 

 for enlarging and vigorously prosecuting 

 i's propaganda activities. The association 

 now has 12,000 members, a secretary with 

 two assistants, and it is hoped to add a 

 French speaking forester for the work in 

 the Province of Quebec. 



Mr. M. A. Grainger, late Chief Forester 

 of British Columbia, has organized the 

 Timber Industries Council of British Col- j 

 umbia, with headquarters in Vancouver, 

 and becomes its managing director. This 

 will federate the efforts of the Lumber and 

 Shingle Manufacturers Association, The 

 British Columbia Loggers Association, The 

 Mountain Lumbermen's Association, The 

 Shingle Agency and The British Columbia I 

 Timberholder's Association. The objects ] 

 of the council will be to promote co-opera- I 

 tion and stability in the forest industries, 

 to provide central facilities for the indus- I 

 tries, to collect and circulate information I 

 of interest to the industries as a whole. 

 The work of the council will not overlap 

 that of any other organization and will 

 give a strong central body which can look j 

 after the general welfare of the industry, 

 consolidate and defend it. This is a most 

 important forward step. 



The diameter limit system at present in < 

 force in Quebec and New Brunswick is 

 still exciting a good deal of interest. In 

 New Brunswick some demands are being 

 made for a reduction in the limit and in 

 Quebec efforts are being made to fix it at J 

 some suitable figure, as the constant ] 

 changes of the past few years make it hard I 

 for operators. This is a very important I 

 question and it is hoped that it can soon I 

 be satisfactorily settled. 



The Air Board, under the direction of 1 

 Colonel Leckie, is having some pictures 

 taken of forests with the snow on the I 

 ground, to see whether winter pictures are 

 any more favorable for the study of timber j 

 conditions than those taken in the sum- 

 mer. The Canadian Air Board is doing 

 remarkable work in promoting civil avia- 

 tion. There is a remarkable absence of red 

 tape and of the air of superiority which I 

 usually pervades Government Bureaus, and j 

 valuable experiments are being carried out 

 and results published which are of the 

 greatest value to the public. Their co- 

 operation with civil agencies is splendid 

 and will undoubtedly do much to place ] 

 Canada in a fine position in civil aviation. 



The Canadian Branch of the Aerial 

 League of Great Britain held its annual 

 meeting in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Mon- ' J 

 treat on the eleventh of February, when a 

 report on the Air Board's activities for the 

 past season was made and a paper read on 

 aviation in forestry with slides showing 

 how aerial photographs are used in map- 

 ping and estimating timber lands. 



A bill has been introduced and has passed 

 first reading in the Quebec Legislature 

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