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reserves. The reserves give an opportunity for a more careful 

 and minute study of forest conditions than is possiVjle in the great 

 area of the general forest, and are the first steps toward the final 

 conquering of much that has become a wilderness, but which may 

 yet blossom, if not as a rose, at least with a V)eauty and verdure 

 and value of its own. The aim of the management must be to 

 produce a forest of wgll-formed trunks, clear and clean, and the 

 evolution of the forest by which this is reached is a question re- 

 quiring careful study. Various influences affect the results bene- 

 ficially or otherwise. Different species of trees havef varying 

 effects on one another. Some will grow in dense shade; some 

 require light. For some a great deal of moisture is necessary; 

 others prefer dry locations. Insects do their destructive work, 

 as for instance the larch sawfiy, which killed the tamarac through 

 out the northern forests ; rot and fungi and storms all have their 

 effect. 



The problems of economy, of engineering, of transportation, 

 of management, of scientific investigation, that a study of forest 

 administration opens up will give scope for the best intellect that 

 Canada can produce, and displays a field for investigation, fas- 

 cinating in itself and in its possibilities of practical application 

 for the good of the country. 



The educational institutions have recognized the meaning 

 this movement has for them, and have been turning their atten- 

 tion to the possibility of providing the scientific training that 

 may be necessary. vSackville University has had a course of lec- 

 tures on Forestry. Queen's University, during the term of 1900, 

 also held a similar series, and both she and the University of 

 Toronto have been looking towards the establishment of a School 

 of Forestry. The Ontario Agricultural College is taking active 

 steps in its special sphere. 



The forestry movement should appeal to all Canadians. 

 Canada has been blessed by Providence with a wealth of forest. 

 It has inwoven itself in her poetry and her history. It clothes 

 with beautv her sterile lands, making them productive and giv- 

 ing healthy occupation to a happy people. In the advance of 

 the civilization of the nineteenth century two-thirds of this 

 forest has been swept away by fire, uselessly and needlessly. 

 Rocky and sandy wastes have been bared and left desolate. Is 

 this all that the intelHgence of man can do? Has the twen- 

 tieth century no other purpose to accomplish? Will the close 

 of another cycle find the destruction much more surely and com- 

 pletely established? Or will the expiration of another hundred 

 years find the forests clothing the rocky hills and valleys with 

 their beautiful verdure, well-ordered, productive, abounding in 

 wealth for the state, furnishing the needs of Canada and the re- 

 gions beyond, supporting a hardy and intelligent populace, form- 



