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AMERICAN TORKSTRV 



Canadian Department 



By Ellwood Wilson 



Secretary, Canadian Society of Forest Engineers 



B. M. Winegar, Forester to the Operat- 

 ing Department, Eastern Lines, Canadian 

 Pacific Railway, has just returned from a 

 trip through the Maritime Provinces. The 

 Canadian Pacific is planting trees and 

 shrubs around the stations and also plum- 

 ing trees to take the place of the snow 

 fences made of boards which are used to 

 keep the snow from drifting on the tracks 

 in winter. 



Major J. B. White, of the 224th Forestry 

 Battalion, C. F. E., has cabled that he will 

 toon return from England to recruit another 

 Woodmen's Battalion, of which he will be 

 the Colonel. 



Lt. C. H. Morse, 224th Forestry Battalion, 

 C. F. E., writes from Bramshott Camp, 

 England, that the men are hard at work 

 learning infantry drill and tactics as well as 

 doing logging work. 



The extraordinarily wet spring has been 

 most favorable to tree growth in Quebec, 

 Norway spruce showing already nearly a 

 foot in height growth, Scotch pine and 

 white pine, fifteen inches, and Jack pine, 

 eighteen to twenty-four inches. Insect 

 pests have not been troublesome except the 

 elm-leaf aphis. 



Mr. Arnold Hanssen, member of the 

 Canadian Society of Forest Engineers, and 

 for four years with the Laurentide Com- 

 pany, Ltd., in the Forestry Division, is going 

 to Yale this fall for a post-graduate For- 

 estry course. 



Mr. H. C. Schanche, who has been with 

 the Laurentide Company. Ltd., in the For- 

 estry Division, is returning to Penn State to 

 finish his Forestry course. 



Mr. Earle Spafford, who was for some 

 time with the Forestry Division of the 

 Laurentide Company, Ltd., and is now with 

 the Tobacco Products Company, in Boston, 

 came to Grand Mere to arrange for a long 

 vacation trip into the northwoods of Quebec 

 this fall. 



In spite of the successes of the Allies, 

 recruiting is as active as ever and several 

 new infantry battalions are soon to be 

 authorized. 



Mr. L M. Kllis. of the C. P. R. Forestry 

 Staff, writes from Calgary that so many 

 men have enlisted and there is such a de- 

 mand for labor in munition factories and 

 in construction work that the farmers will 

 have extreme difficulty in obtaining labor 

 to harvest their crops. 



Five men were graduated in forestry at 

 the University of New Brunswick on May 

 17th. Messrs. C. E. Maimann, who is now 

 a corporal in the 58th Howitzer Battery at 

 Fredericton; Mr. Janus Burns, who takes 

 up work as an instrument man in a Crown 

 land survey party goinj! out near Campbell- 

 ton; Mr. Leland S. Webb, who goes out on 

 reconnaissance work with the Dominion 

 Forestry Branch in Manitoba; Mr. Edwin 

 Hall, who will be in Saskatchewan, and Mr. 

 Colby S. Jones, who will likely take up 

 the work of lumbering w.th Jones Brothers, 

 at Apohaqui, New Brunswick. 



Among the other forestry students going 

 out on work for the summer are George 

 Miller, James Smart and Leo C. Kelly, of 

 the Junior class, with the Dominion For- 

 estry Branch. With the Crown Land De- 

 partment of the province, in parties now 

 organized, are : R. Melrose, R. D. Jago. 

 Percy Crandall, A. M. Brewer, Austin P. 

 McDonald, Cy Young and Lee S. Kilburn. 

 Prof. R. B. Miller will also be engaged 

 with the Crown Land Department on the 

 study of growth and volume. 



Public sentiment in Canada on the ques- 

 tion of forest protection and the need of 

 guarding more than five thousand wood- 

 using industries from the menace of forest 

 fires has reached a point which none of our 

 governments, Provincial or Federal, can 

 safely ignore. Through the efforts of the 

 Canadian Forestry Association and other 

 bodies, the facts regarding Canada's de- 

 pendence upon cheap and abundant wood 

 supplies, and the enormous damage wrought 

 annually by preventable fires, have been 

 made matters of common information in 

 town and country from coast to coast. 



Three field parties are now at work in 

 New Brunswick, in connection with the 

 forest survey and classification of Crown 

 lands. The project is under the super- 

 vision of P. Z. Caverhill, provincial for- 

 ester, subject to the general direction of 

 the Minister of Lands and Forests. The 

 size and importance of the undertaking is 

 indicated by the fact that the Crown lands 

 in this province comprise 10,000 square 

 miles and return a direct revenue to the 

 provincial treasury averaging more than 

 half a million dollars annually from timber 

 alone, in addition to large revenues from 

 the sale of hunting and fishing privileges. 



C. H. Morse, Assistant Inspector of For- 

 estry Branch at Alberta, enlisted with the 

 Foresters' Battalion and up to the time of 

 this writing he states that his company had 

 not not down to the actual work for which 

 the battalion was formed. One of the best 



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