216 REPORT OF THE No. 3 



For the purposes of comparison, the surveyed area is divided into seven 

 districts, namely, Algonquin Park, Ottawa Valley, Renfrew, Madawaska, 

 Muskoka, Parry Sound, and Georgian Bay. Of these, Madawaska was, in 

 part, covered the previous summer (1920) by three forestry graduates, and 

 the results of both surveys are included in the figures of this report. It may 

 be explained that the boundaries of these districts do not correspond with 

 the existing municipal boundaries, except in the case of Algonquin Park. 

 Ottawa Valley is taken as the fringe of country between the Park and Ottawa 

 River. Renfrew includes those portions of Nipissing and Renfrew counties 

 south-east of the Park. Madawaska takes in northern and eastern Hastings 

 and the northerly portions of Frontenac and Lennox and Addington. Muskoka 

 refers only to a small north-eastern part of that district. Georgian Bay is 

 applied to the western portion of Parry Sound and Muskoka districts. Parry 

 Sound covers the remainder of Parry Sound district, except the central north 

 and south alienated strip. Trent refers to northern Peterborough and central 

 and western Hastings. 



In order to fully understand this report, a few remarks on the subject of 

 ownership conditions will be necessary. 



Ownership. — Of the total area, about 65 to 70 per cent, remains in the 

 Crown. In the Algonquin Inspectorate (Algonquin Park, Ottawa Valley, 

 Renfrew), this represents approximately 90 per cent, of the total area. Here, 

 the patented lands exist as a fringe of varying width along the Ottawa River 

 front, and as more or less solid masses with intervening and scattered Crown 

 lands, in Renfrew. In the Georgian Bay Inspectorate (Georgian Bay, Parry 

 Sound, Muskoka), Crown lands comprise 60 per ceni. of the total area. The 

 bulk of these are located in a solid block in the north-east sector and on the 

 shores of Georgian Bay; the remainder are found in the south-east sector, along 

 the eastern border of the Inspectorate and adjacent to Algonquin Park. In 

 the Trent Inspectorate (Madawaska and Trent), the distribution of Crown 

 and patented lands is quite different. Instead of being located in separate 

 localities, the Crown lands are interspersed throughout the area in blocks of 

 up to 30 or 40 square miles, surrounded and cut off by the holdings of settlers. 

 Thus we have many smaller forests, more or less set off by themselves,, with 

 agricultural land in between. 



Land under license comprises 9,587 square miles, of which the Algonquin 

 Inspectorate forms 55.6 per cent., Parry Sound 26.1 per cent., and Trent In- 

 spectorate 18.3 per cent. This relation bears a striking resemblance to the 

 timbered areas yet containing commercial supplies within the Inspectorates, 

 as out of a total of 1,507,539 acres, Algonquin forms 58.5 per cent.. Parry Sound 

 24.7 per cent., and Trent 16.6 per cent. 



The diversity of ownership conditions within the Inspectorate, indicating, 

 as they do, the relative occurrence of timber or young growth, will undoubtedly 

 call for different forms of forest management. 



In the survey proper, the following will, in brief, describe the classification 

 used, the methods employed, and some of the results obtained. Further in- 

 formation, regarding composition of parties, routes, cost of survey, dates, 

 etc., is given in the appendix. 



Field Work. — Forest type maps were prepared in the field, delimiting 

 cleared land from barrens and forest. The forest area was differentiated into 

 hardwood, coniferous and mixed types, with the poplar-birch type separated 

 from the other hardwoods. The first three types were classified as to condi- 



