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Appendix No. 36 



REPORT OF THE FORESTRY BRANCH, 1926 



Sir, — The report of the work of this Branch for the year ending October 

 31st, 1926, is given under the sections of Forest Fire Protection, Air Service, 

 Air Operations, Reforestation and Forest Investigation. 



I. — Forest Fire Protection 



(1) Legislation 



No changes were made in the Forest Fires Prevention Act during the year 

 1926. 



(2) Organization and Personnel 



In the early part of May a new district office was opened at Sioux Lookout 

 for the new Hudson Inspectorate under the jurisdiction of a technical forester 

 with one technical assistant. This Inspectorate consisted of four Chief Ranger 

 Districts, C.G.R. West, C.G.R. Central and Kenora, all previously in the 

 Western Inspectorate, and the newly formed Red Lake Chief Ranger District. 

 The Western Inspectorate now consists of the three districts, Rainy River, 

 Thunder Bay and Nipigon. 



The resignation in September of the Fire Inspector in charge of the Oba 

 Inspectorate resulted in the transfer to that Inspectorate as District Forester 

 of the Forestry Assistant in the Algonquin Inspectorate. 



Two District Foresters, those in charge of the Sudbury and the Trent 

 Inspectorates, resigned in the early spring to accept more remunerative positions 

 elsewhere. The technical assistants in the two Inspectorates were then placed 

 in charge. Later a new Inspectorate, North Bay, was formed from part of the 

 Sudbury Inspectorate and includes the Chief Ranger Districts of Timagami 

 North, Timagami East and North Bay. The Inspectorate is in charge of the 

 Forester previously at North Bay, with one Forestry Assistant. 



A Forestry Assistant was also appointed for the Soo Inspectorate. 



The total field supervisory staff for the ten inspectorates was as shown in 

 the accompanying table, seven District Foresters, one Assistant District Forester, 

 one Forester, five Forestry Assistants, one Forest Supervisor, four Fire In- 

 spectors, one Assistant Fire Inspector, thirty-nine Chief Rangers and one hundred 

 and ten Deputy Chief Rangers. This allowed direct supervision of one Chief 

 or Deputy Chief Ranger to an average of every six rangers. 



