A GLANCE AT FOREST CONDITIONS IN NEW BRUNS- 

 WICK. 



G. U. Hay, D.Sc, St. John, N.B. 



Two years ago, while camping out near Kedron Lake, in the 

 south-west part of New Brunswick, I came upon the remains of 

 a magnificent white pine, lying prostrate in the woods. From 

 this a section had been cut oft" close to the butt, the diameter 

 of which was nearly three feet. The length of the piece cut 

 off and carried away, perhaps for exhibition purposes, was a 

 httle less than five feet. The remainder of the tree, a fine bole, 

 straight as an arrow, and nearly one hundred feet in length, was 

 left to rot in the woods. It had evidently been felled not many 

 years before, since the cut end was not greatly weathered, and 

 there were traces of still unhealed wounds left on the smaller trees 

 that had been caught in the death of this monarch of the forest 

 as it crashed to earth. 



The commercial value of this huge trunk, had it been manu- 

 factured into lumber while it was sound, could not, at the lowest 

 estimate, be less than one hundred dollars, even though there 

 were great difficulties in transporting it from the forest where it 

 lay. 



I recall the sight of another huge pine trunk in a secluded 

 part of the forest in Northern New Brunswick. A single log had 

 been taken from the fallen tree, which, covered with moss, had 

 sunk half its thickness into the loose forest mould. It had lain 

 there probably fifty or more years. 



One is loath to believe that a lapse of fifty years has brought 

 about no better sentiment in regard to forest preservation or the 

 repression of individual acts of waste and vandalism. 



If in the first instance quoted above the section of pine was 

 used to exhibit the size of our trees and demonstrate our forest 

 wealth, would not companion pictures of a huge moss-covered 

 pine trunk rotting in the forest, or a picture of what may be seen 

 everywhere in New Brunswick, decaying pine stumps of large 

 size, about the only evidence now of its former existence as a 

 timber tree, be just as appropriate to our needs — and far more 

 useful — showing the wasteful lumbering that has been done in 

 the past, and the necessity of an education of a practical and 

 helpful character to teach people to respect trees and appreciate 

 their value. 



There is another picture, so common that it may be only 

 briefly alluded to here, and that is of the destrtiction caused by 



