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The Alberta Inspection District deserves 

 a great deal of credit for the excellent 

 news letter they are sending to the men 

 from the District who have gone to the 

 front and it would be a splendid idea if 

 they could afford to send it to all foresters 

 on the other side. 



A meeting of the Forest Protection Com- 

 mittee for the Province of British Colum- 

 bia, was held recently in Victoria. This 

 committee consists of two prominent lum- 

 bermen representing the Lumbermen's and 

 Loggers' Association and three members 

 of the Forestry Branch of the Govern- 

 ment. The fire protection fund began with 



a balance for the past year of $5000. The 

 receipts were $228,000, and the expendi- 

 tures about $215,000. The expenditure was 

 divided into, patrol $101,523, fire fighting 

 $90,523 and improvements, in which item 

 are included 13 motor cars, $14,513. There 

 were 205 patrolmen for the season, which 

 was a very bad one. The use of automo- 

 biles proved an unqualified success in in- 

 creasing the efficiency of both patrol and 

 fire fighting, and also cut down the patrol 

 expense as the men could cover so much 

 more ground. 



It was planned to use many short 

 time men during the danger season, but 

 the scarcity of labor made this difficult. 

 However, the season was successful when 

 it is considered that conditions were almost 

 the worst on record. The experience of 

 the past season shows that local arrange- 

 ments for securing men, tools and food 

 need improvement. Localities should be 

 provided for lists of men available for 

 fighting fires, there should be more tool 

 caches at strategic points and food lists 

 for gangs of different sizes should be pre- 

 pared and supplied to district foresters and 

 country stores so that in emergencies, the 

 men in charge of the work can concentrate 

 on putting out the fires and not be so 

 hampered with details of securing tools 

 and provisions. 



In the fall slash burning operations were 

 carried out to a considerable extent in the 

 Cranbrook, Nelson and Vancouver Island 

 Districts in some cases by the operators on 

 their own initiative, in other cases in 

 conjunction with the Forest Service. Fur- 

 ther burning is planned for the spring, 

 particularly in the Kamloops District. Each 

 year there is an improvement in the co- 

 operation of the public with the fire pre- 

 vention work and the permit system seems 

 to be carried out more efficiently and with 

 less friction. Last season some 4,100 per- 

 mits covering 21,500 acres were issued. As 

 a rule they were for short periods, seldom 

 exceeding fourteen days. During danger- 

 ous periods in the southern districts all 

 permits were cancelled for periods vary- 

 ing from two weeks to two months ; 986 

 fires were reported, of which about one- 

 third entailed extra labor in extinguish- 

 ing. The total area burned over was one- 

 quarter million acres. Only about one- 

 eighth of this contained merchantable tim- 

 ber and the net stumpage loss is valued 

 at slightly over $100,000. Buildings, log- 

 ging equipment and logs destroyed gave a 

 further loss of $160,000. This record is 

 much better than that for the previous 

 serious season of 1914. Eleven prosecu- 

 tions were brought and convictions ob- 

 tained in eight cases, with fines ranging 

 from $25 to $1,150. Twenty-four light 

 automobiles were used and made 61,587 

 miles at a cost of approximately 5J4 cents 

 per mile. 



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This school of Forestry was estab- 

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