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CANADIAN DEPARTMENT 



BY ELLWOOD WILSON 

 PAST PRESIDENT CANADIAN SOCIETY OF FOREST ENGINEERS 



TMUCH interest is being evinced in the 

 forestry situation and methods in 

 Sweden by the pulp and paper industry in 

 Canada. At the suggestion of the Cana- 

 dian Pulp and Paper Association, the Chief 

 Forester of Quebec has gone to Sweden, 

 the Chief Forester of Ontario will probably 

 go, and the Association is sending its own 

 representative, Mr. Edward Beck, to study 

 forestry policies and methods of refores- 

 tation, management and logging. Many 

 Swedish foresters and men interested in 

 the pulp and paper industry have visited 

 Canada during the past year and a close 

 rapprochement is being established be- 

 tween the two countries. Of especial in- 

 terest is the Swedish method of passing 

 from a virgin to a managed forest, the 

 method of determining the annual cut and 

 also the policy pursued by the Government 

 in its supervision of private lands. 



The forestry situation has improved ma- 

 terially in Eastern Canada during the past 

 year. The Governments have taken much 

 more interest in the management of their 

 forests and they are feeling their way 

 toward the regulation of the amount to be 

 cut and the substitution of the diameter 

 limit of cutting by a rational and carefully 

 prepared working plan. In cooperation 

 with the Quebec Government, several of 

 the large companies are preparing working 

 plans for their licensed lands, which, if 

 approved, will be carefully carried out and 

 will put their holdings on a practical 

 forestry basis. 



The Laurentide Company, Ltd. has made 

 such an arrangement with the Quebec 

 Government and has foresters now inspect- 

 ing and reporting on the territory to be cut 

 next fall and winter. Their recommend- 

 ations will be laid before the Government 

 the end of May and permission asked to 

 carry them out. This company has also 

 brought, this spring, all its logging in- 

 spectors and scalers down to the mill to 

 study the utilization of the wood they are 

 making and to familiarize themselves with 

 the various processes through which it 

 must pass, so that they can intelligently 

 cooperate with the mill men in the thorough 

 utilization of as much of the tree as is 

 possible and the elimination of waste. 



It is understood that the Dayton-Wright 

 Company, of Dayton are building for the 

 Spanish River Pulp and Paper Company 

 a special airplane or rather hydroplane 

 for use in mapping forest lands. This 

 machine will be of the float type, will be 

 entirely enclosed and so arranged that the 

 photographer and observer will be housed 



in and have a perfectly clear view of the 

 land over which they are flying and will 

 be able to take notes, make sketches and 

 take photographs with as much ease as if 

 they were in an office. The machine will 

 have a low landing speed so as to make it 

 safe and will have a wide radius of action. 

 This is the first machine which has been 

 designed especially for forestry work and 

 its use will be watched with the greatest 

 interest. 



The machines of the Laurentide Company 

 are ready to take the air and a large 

 summer's work is anticipated. Plans made 

 call for the photographic mapping of 2000 

 square miles of territory and forest fires 

 will also be spotted and reported. Log 

 drives will be inspected from the air and 

 progress photos made of them. Territory 

 cut over the past season will be photo- 

 graphed in order to bring the forest maps 

 up to date and to see how the work has 

 been done. Photographs taken last season 

 showed, in one case very clearly, logs that 

 had not been taken out, skidding and haul- 

 ing roads, timber which should have been 

 cut but was not and the general con- 

 dition of the country logged. Foresters, log- 

 ging superintendents and others who have 

 business in the woods will be carried to 

 and from the districts where they are work- 

 ing and territory where boundary lines 

 are to be run will be photographed so that 

 provisions can be put on lakes to be cross- 

 ed by the lines, so that the survey crew 

 will not have to carry them all along the 

 line. This will save much time, work 

 and expense, as often provisions on boun- 

 dary lines have to be taken over or around 

 difficult ridges. At each mile openings 

 about 15 feet in diameter will be cleared 

 so that later photos will show the mile 

 posts and give a check on the scale of the 

 photos. 



It was rumored at the opening of Parli- 

 ament that the Commission of Conserva- 

 tion would be abolished and its duties 

 divided among other departments. No 

 further news has been given out about the 

 proposed change and it is sincerely to be 

 hoped that nothing more will be done. 

 The excuse given was economy. It was 

 said that all the work done by the Com- 

 mission really came under and could be 

 done by other Departments. This is true, 

 but the fact remains that nothing was done 

 by such Departments and they felt more 

 or less that their work was criticized by 

 the formation of the Commission. Govern- 

 ment Departments so soon degenerate in- 

 to mere administrative machines, losing 

 their initiative and the sense of proportion 



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