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CANADIAN DEPARTMENT 



BY ELLWOOD WILSON 



PRESIDENT CANADIAN SOCIETY OF FOREST ENGINEERS 

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TN the great movement for the rational 



use and the perpetuation of the forests 

 of this continent, the foresters of the coun- 

 try must make themselves its leaders but 

 they must have not only broad but re- 

 strained vision and must work in a spirit 

 of co-operation with all the other interests 

 concerned. There must be no thought of 

 compulsion, no "mandatory" legislation, un- 

 til everything else has been tried and has 

 failed. Education is far better than legis- 

 lation and the great effort must be toward 

 an enlightened public opinion. This must 

 be fostered by the profession and they must 

 show their faith in their works and have 

 the courage of their convictions. The 

 whole question of proper utilization of our 

 forests and their rational conservation, is 

 of so eminently practical a nature, so ap- 

 pealing to every man of common sense and 

 judgment, that there is nc need for any 

 sentimental "movement." Every man, 

 whether he is a lumberman or a business 

 man, will admit the necessity of preserving 

 our forests for a sustained yield at once, 

 it is only necessary to work out the ways 

 and means so that the end can be accom- 

 plished with the least dislocation of ex- 

 isting conditions. This is the job of the 

 foresters. 



Mr. Henrik Carbonnier, Honorary At- 

 tache to the Swedish Consulate General 

 in Montreal, has been making visits to 

 lumbering operations in Eastern Canada 

 and is now on his way west to look over 

 conditions in British Columbia. He will 

 then go down the west coast, then to New 

 Orleans and the Southern pine operations, 

 returning to Eastern Canada in May. Mr. 

 Carbonnier notes that conditions in Eastern 

 Canada are more favorable for natural 

 reproduction than in Sweden, due he thinks 

 to the greater precipitation. He was as- 

 tounded at the wastefulness of the methods 

 of cutting and the lack of care for the 

 future stand. Also at the small number of 

 foresters in charge of woods operations, 

 practically none. He admitted that our 

 problem of natural regeneration was com- 

 plicated by the number of hardwood species 

 and their thriftiness. 



There was practically a complete failure 

 of the Norway spruce seed crop this year 

 in Sweden and Norway, and the seed will 

 be very scarce and difficult to procure next 

 summer. 



Mr. Piche, Chief Forester of Quebec, has 

 completed a new set of cutting regulations 



to govern lumbering operations on Crown 

 lands and these will probably be put into 

 force the coming summer. 



The assistant forester of the Abitibi Pulp 

 and Paper Company has completed an ex- 

 ploration trip to James Bay and reports 

 that an enormous area of country has been 

 burnt over and that there is nothing like 

 the amount of timber -which many people 

 had supposed. This trip took nearly four 

 months and many difficulties and hardships 

 were surmounted. 



Mr. L. S. Webb, of the University of 

 New Brunswick, has been appointed For- 

 ester for the Province of Nova Scotia. This 

 appointment is due to the Hon. Mr. Daniels, 

 Attorney General of that Province, who 

 has always taken a great interest in the 

 proper handling of its forests. 



Mr. H. R. MacMillan, late trade com- 

 missioner for British Columbia and one- 

 time chief forester, is leaving for a trip 

 to Australia on behalf of the company 

 which he has recently formed. 



Professor McCarty, of Syracuse Uni- 

 versity, will spend the summer on investi- 

 gative work for the Dominion Commission 

 of Conservation. His work will probably 

 be in Ontario. 



A very interesting conference on wild 

 life was held recently under the auspices 

 of the Commission of Conservation in 

 Montreal and problems of game protection, 

 fur farming and kindred subjects were dis- 

 cussed by experts. The remarkable ad- 

 vances in the price of furs bring the danger 

 of the commercial extinction of certain 

 species and this must be guarded against, 

 but at the same time everything must be 

 done to increase the number of furbearing 

 animals. The convention decided unani- 

 mously to establish a national registration 

 of silver foxes and took the necessary steps 

 toward initiating this important work. 



The forest revenues from New Bruns- 

 wick have more than doubled during the 

 past year. The total estimated will be 

 $1,500,000. This is nearly three times that 

 of 1017 and closely approximates that of 

 Quebec. This is the result of putting tech- 

 nical men in charge of the work, especially 

 the scaling, eliminating patronage and giv- 

 ing the forest personnel all the year round 

 work. 



An interesting report has been received 

 from Ontario. A company operating its 

 own camps, put in iron bunks, a shower 

 bath and cleaned up things generally, im- 



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