34 METHODS OF OOMMUNICATWN FOR FOREST PROTECTION 



The construction of privately owned lines within the reserves should be encouraged. 

 Permits for such lines, when they will be of material benefit to the forest reserve should 

 be recommended for issuance under Regulation 65 (" Regulations for Dominion Forest 

 Reserves," 1916) and the conditions varied so as to afford the necessary encouragement 

 in each case. Regulation 21 authorizes the granting of free construction materials 

 for structures on roads and trails on condition that they become the property of the 

 Crown, and Regulations 18 and 19 provide for the furnishing of materials at special 

 rates when the removal of the material will benefit the reserve. Supervisors, therefore, 

 should accompany all recommendations for issuance of permits for the construction 

 of private telephone lines within forest reserves by a report regarding the class of 

 construction materials that it will be necessary to obtain from the forest reserve, if 

 any, and a recommendation regarding the price that should be charged in case special 

 consideration is believed justifiable. Free service for a specified number of connections 

 made by the Forestry Branch on all such lines will be made a part of all such permits. 



Section 41 Use of Forestry Branch Lines 



The connection of privately owned instruments with Forestry Branch lines will 

 not be permitted. The conditions under which these lines are constructed and main- 

 tained necessarily reduces to a minimum the number of telephones that may be operated 

 on them. Each telephone adds to the electrical load and lessens by this amount the 

 reserve capacity for future growth and, more particularly, for emergencies. Under 

 no circumstances can such a number of instruments be regularly connected to a 

 Forestry Branch line that its entire capacity is employed, since the exigencies of forest 

 administration may at any time require the establishment of one or more additional 

 temporary connections with portable instruments or emergency lines. The possibilities 

 of extensions are also extremely important in this connection. A line 10 miles long 

 might easily carry ten to fifteen telephones, but if this line is extended to form part 

 of a circuit 100 miles long the probability is that all but one or two of these telephones 

 would have to be removed in order to get any use of the line. Now, it is found that 

 where telephone service has once been granted in an isolated region it is relinquished 

 only with the greatest reluctance and therefore forest officers should weigh all these 

 points very carefully when considering any connections other than those at ranger 

 stations. 



All instruments connected with a Forestry Branch line will be provided, installed, 

 and maintained by the Forestry Branch. Instruments may be installed by super- 

 visors at logging camps, mines, or other private establishments, but only where such 

 installations are necessary for the proper administration and protection of the forest, 

 where suitable arrangements can be made for the protection of the instrument and 

 the securing of access to it by forest officers at all times, and only after approval of the 

 installations has been received from the district inspector. It will be the duty of 

 supervisors contemplating such installation to report fully to the district inspector the 

 conditions which warrant the placing of an instrument at that point, the character of 

 the building in which it will be placed, and the service that may be secured, and to 

 report annually as to the advisability of maintaining or discontinuing the installation. 

 Such stations will, as a rule, be located only in buildings of a public or semi-public 

 character such as stores, post offices, hotels, road-houses, logging-camps, etc., and only 

 where the location is of material importance to the reserve work and the person owning 

 the establishment is under agreement to perform some special service for the Forestry 

 Branch. 



The telephone lines of the Forestry Branch are not to be considered commercial 

 in character. It is not the intention to enter into competition with any private or 

 provincial telephone service. Hence no action such as the granting of telephone ser- 

 vices to settlers along these limes, with an annual charge for the privilege, will be 

 permitted. It is obvious that any such permits will inevitably raise the question of 



