PAPER COMPANY'S FORESTRY PRACTICE 



MANY OF THE SPRUCE TREES HAVE BEEX SERIOUSLY INJURED BY THIS FUNGUS 



AND ARE IN NEED OF CUTTING. 



: get spruce reproduction under the 

 hardwoods, especially where it looks as 

 if market conditions would not warrant 

 their being cut within the next fifty 

 years. the above system has resulted in 

 enough spruce being left to seed up the 

 woods, and to seed up the whole area if 

 the hardv. Is -hould ever be cut. 



DIFFICULTIES OF THE WORK 



In the pure spruce slope type, which 

 :- usually situated at higher elevation 

 than the mixed hardwoods with scath- 

 ing spruce, the wind must be taken into 

 - well as the red rot and 

 the porcupir. 



The aim in this type is not only to 

 leave the trees that will earn a good 

 rate of interest in growth for the next 

 :':y years but to get spruce reproduc- 

 tion. It is impossible to leave individual 

 trees standing alone for the wind will 

 them over. Th -.-m finally 



worked out consisted of leaving groups 

 of seed trees distributed where possi- 

 ble, so that no part of the clear cut area 

 between the groups is over three or 

 four tree heights from a group. As 

 far as possible these groups were com- 

 posed of the type of trees that were left 

 in the mixed hardwood- and -cattered 

 spruce type. 



The principal difficulty in getting this 

 kind of work done i- not with the lead- 

 ing men of the Company, but with the 

 contractors, camp b md chopp' 



The b en tried to fool the mark- 



on several diff'.-n.-nt occasions and 

 eral of the gr ed trees were 



'iled by roads ;'.-ing -\vamp<-d 

 through them when the markers were 

 not there. It wa^ almost impossible to 

 get the chopper- to dr 

 which were not worth removing from 

 the woods. In the Company'-, camp-. 

 more effective work wa-, done than in 

 the contractor-' camp-, and -,ome of the 



