158 REPORT OF LANDS AND FORESTS FOR 1930 No. 3 



V. — Forest Surveys 



The surveys commenced in 1929 in connection with the Timagami and 

 Georgian Bay Provincial Forests were continued during 1930. As in the previous 

 surveys the object of the work was to furnish detailed information as to the 

 existing forest conditions. 



The total area examined amounted to 621,000 acres and of which 188,000 

 acres are within the Timagami Provincial Forest and 433,000 acres the total 

 area of the Georgian Bay Provincial Forest. 



Timagami Provincial Forest Survey 



This survey is the extension of the stock-taking survey commenced in 1929 

 and includes the Townships of Le Roche, Canton, Aston, Cole, Leo and Dane. 

 In addition a detailed examination was made of the Gillies' Limit, a cut-over 

 area recently returned to the Crown and added to the Timagami Provincial 

 Forest. 



Forest conditions within the townships named show that the stands are 

 practically all immature, only two and one-half per cent, of the area being 

 typed as mature. The immature stands are those reproduced following fires 

 sixty-one and sixty-seven years ago. 



Forest conditions now existing on the Gillies' Limit are the result of logging 

 and forest fires. Over one-half of the area is covered by immature stands and 

 the balance is mature cut-over stands. This area has been under license from 

 1864 until 1928 and operations were carried on intermittently during that time. 

 Two of the most active years were the seasons of 1905-6 and 1906-7 when over 

 forty-six million feet were cut. 



Georgian Bay Provincial Forest Survey 



The field work in connection with the Georgian Bay Provincial Forest survey 

 had for its main object the indentification of the different forest types. Prior to 

 placing the party in the field the vertical photographs of this tract were purchased 

 from the Dominion Topographic Surveys Department and the information on 

 these pictures was transferred and compiled into township plans showing the 

 revised topographic features together with the boundary lines of the different 

 forest associations. No effort was made to identify these associations in the 

 office and it constituted the main activity of the field party. 



The results of this survey are in the course of preparation. The eight 

 township plans for the forest are being consolidated into one map on the scale 

 of one inch equals one mile and will picture the existing forest conditions. 



Forest Investigations 



The forest investigation programme for the year 1930 involved a study 

 of conditions on cut-over pine and pulpwood lands unburnt since logging, 

 special attention being directed towards the amount of regeneration present 

 to form the basis of a future crop of pulpwood or pine lumber. 



Three survey parties of six men each were employed on field work throughout 

 the summer season. One party studied conditions in mature uncut stands on 

 the Sand river drainage area, District of Algoma. A party worked in cut-over 

 unburnt pulpwood stands in the vicinity of Onaping lake, Sudbury District, 

 and a third party studied conditions on cut-over pine lands located some twenty 

 miles north of North Bay. /i ^^ 



