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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



For quality, quantity and accessi- 

 bility of pulp timber and for available 

 water powers, British Columbia prob- 

 ably stands first in the world. All 

 along the Coast are vast quantities of 

 hemlock, spruce and balsam, easily 

 transportable to the many fine water 

 powers to be found near saltwater in 

 the numerous inlets. In the Northern 

 Interior, in the upper water-sheds of 

 tributaries of the Northern part of the 

 Fraser River, and the other Northern 

 Rivers, are to be found vast areas of 

 spruce and balsam forests, while the 

 mountain rivers afford numerous good 

 sites for water powers. 



Each year the Forest Branch is 

 making fuller use of the Dominion 

 Government telegraph stations, wireless 

 and otherwise, both for administrative 

 and fire protection work. Through 

 cooperation with the Dominion Meteo- 

 rological Service at Victoria, telegraphic 

 weather reports have been received 

 each day during the fire season from 

 various stations throughout the Prov- 

 ince. These reports, especially those 

 from the Northern stations, have as- 

 sisted in the forecasting of weather and 

 enabled the Forest Officers to be notified 

 in advance of dangerous dry winds. 

 The reports were also transmitted to 

 the U. S. Meteorological Service at 

 Portland, and were utilized by the 

 Western Forestry and Conservation 

 Association in a similar manner. 



Forest Act offering somewhat over 200 

 million feet of pulp timber for sale at 

 upset prices ranging from 10 cents to 

 25 cents per thousand feet Board 

 Measure. 



This timber is comprised mainly of 

 Western Hemlock, Balsam Fir and 

 Sitka Spruce with an admixture of 

 Douglas Fir and Cedar. The time 

 allowed for the removal of the timber is 

 30 years and for the first time in the 

 history of Canada provision has been 

 made for the readjustment of stumpage 

 prices every five years for the last 

 20 years of the term. This readjust- 

 ment is based on the recent Royalty 

 Act, which provides for a percentage 

 increase on the increased cost of manu- 

 facture of lumber over $18.00, the 

 proportion increasing 25% in 1920 to 

 40% in 1945. 



A cargo of 160,000 creosoted Douglas 

 Fir Railway Ties was shipped last week 

 by the Dominion Creosoting Company 

 of Vancouver to the Bengal and North 

 Western Railway Company at Calcutta. 



The Forest Branch was instrumental 

 in obtaining this trial order for British 

 Columbia and acted as inspectors for 

 the Railway Company to see that their 

 specifications were properly fulfilled. 

 These specifications called for the best 

 quality of Douglas Fir to be impregnated 

 with 1 2 pounds of creosote per cubic 

 foot. 



On the Yukon telegraph trail, away 

 up North of Hazelton in the Groundhog 

 country, the Forest Branch has seeded 

 certain burned areas of Crown land to 

 timothy and white clover, in order 

 to furnish food for the horses of the 

 Forest Guards. 



Pulp sales have recently been adver- 

 tised under the authority given by the 



The Forest Branch is now negotiating 

 with importers in the United Kingdom 

 with a view to supplying quantities of 

 mine props, which before the outbreak 

 of European hostilities were obtained 

 from the Baltic. Great Britain is a 

 tremendous user of pit props and these 

 can be produced in almost unlimited 

 quantities at a very low figure in British 

 Columbia, and it has been shown 

 repeatedly that Douglas Fir is one of 

 the best pit prop woods. 



Germans Protecting Trees 



It is said that the German invaders of Belgium, whatever else they may have destroyed, have 

 been careful not to injure park trees. The cavalrymen, so a report goes, are forbidden to tie their 

 horses to trees for fear that the animals will gnaw the bark. Germany was the first nation to apply 

 forestry on a large scale, some of the crown forests having been under scientific management for 

 over a hundred years. 



