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REPORT OF THE 



No. 3 



SUMMARY OF NURSERY STOCK FOR PLANTING, 1929 



v.— Forest Surveys 



Three projects constituted the forest survey programme for 1928. 



First — The completion of the Rainy River survey commenced in 1927. 



Secondly — The preparation of a forest type map and an estimate of the 

 standing timber on fifty-eight six-mile townships situated mostly in the western 

 part of the Timagami Forest Reserve and known as the Timagami West 

 Forest Survey. 



Thirdly — Forest Investigation (a) The Loch Lomond Watershed Survey, 

 vicinity of Fort William (b) in addition to the above and in conjunction with 

 the Timagami West Forest Survey, investigations were carried on as in the Pic 

 River Survey of 1926 and the Rainy River Survey of 1927 on the growth of 

 spruce and jack pine. 



Rainy River Survey 



Included in the Rainy River Forest Survey is a tract of country situated in 

 parts of three districts — Rainy River, Kenora and Thunder Bay, and confined 

 by the height of land forming the drainage basin of Rainy river. This tract 

 has an area of 6,147 square miles exclusive of Quetico Park, all licensed areas 

 and all areas within surveyed townships. 



Owing to the large amount of territory to be examined it was considered 

 too great a proposition for one year's effort. In 1927, 3,679 square miles of 

 this tract was examined and reported on, and in 1928, a survey was made on the 

 remaining area. With the completion of this survey it is intended that a report 

 be made describing the whole tract. 



The survey of 1928 was confined to Crown lands having an area of 2,497 

 square miles and is divided into two main blocks, the western and the eastern. 



The western block having an area of 1,225 square miles is confined on the 

 west and north by a height of land, dividing the drainage of Rainy lake from 

 that of the English river; on the east by the Sixth Meridian run by Patton, 

 19-21, and on the south by Redgut bay, a bay of Rainy lake. 



The eastern block with an area of 1,243 square miles extends east from the 

 Rainy River-Thunder Bay boundary line to the height of land dividing the 

 drainage of Rainy lake from that flowing east to Lake Superior, and south to 

 the international boundary line. 



The object of the survey was to: 



1. Classify the area with regard to existing forest types and age class 

 conditions. 



2. Prepare a supplemented and improved map of the physiographic features. 



