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Canadian Forestry journal. 



Common Name. 



Botanical Name. 



Distribution. 



13.3. Willow, Hooker iSalix Hookeriana Barratt. 



1,U. 



Willow, Longieaf (Sand- 

 bar) jSaiix longifolia Muhl 



Willow. M:a-kfnzie Salix cordaLa Muhl var. Mac- 



kenzieana Hook 



1.36. Willow. Nuttall Salix Xuttalii Sarg. 



137. Willow, Silky Salix sitchensis Sanson 



138. Willow, Silverleaf SaMx sessilifolia Nutt . 



139. Willow, We.^tern Black.. 3aMx lasiandra Benth.. 



140 3aHx macrostachva . . 



141. Yew, Pacific Taxus brevifolia Nutt. 



I Vancouver Island; 

 ! near the Grand 

 j Rapids of the 

 I Saska.tchewan. 



Que., Ont., Man., 

 S a s k., A 1 1 a., 



I Northern B. C, 

 Mackenzie Dist. 



Great S'a\'e Lake 

 and Mackenzie 

 Ri\'er, south 

 throvxgh the re- 

 gion at the base 

 of the Rockies. 



Alta (Cypress 

 Hills), B.C. 

 (Donald). 



!b.C. 



'B.C. 



[B.C. 



B.C 



The Canadian Conservation Commission. 



The appointment of the ('on.servation 

 Commission marks another iinpovtant 

 step forward in the policy of making the 

 best use of Canada's natural resources. 

 The Commission has been constituted 

 under the act of last .session specially 

 providing for its creation, of which an 

 outline was given in the last issue of the 

 Journal. The personnel of the Commis- 

 sion was announced on August 31st last. 



Hon. Clifford Sifton, who, it will be 

 remembered, was the chairman of the 

 Canadian delegation at the International 

 Conservation Comrnission in February 

 last and subsequently chairman of the 

 special committee of the House of Com- 

 mons on Forests and Waterpowers, has 

 been app-ointed chairman of the 

 Commission. The other members are • 

 Hon. Sydney Fi.sher, Hon. Frank OHver 

 and Hon. Wm. Templeman, Dominion 

 Ministers of Agriculture, of the Interior 

 and of Mines, respectively; Hon. F. L. 

 Haszard, Premier of Prince Edward 

 Island; Hon. W. T. Pipes, Commissioner 



of Crown Lands of Nova Scotia; Hon 

 W. C. H. Grimmer, Surveyor-General of 

 New Brunswick; Hon. Jules Allard, 

 Mini.ster of Lands and Forests of 

 Quebec; Hon. Frank Cochrane, Minister 

 of Lands, Forests and Mines for Ontario; 

 Hon. Hugh Armstrong, Provincial Treas- 

 urer of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Man.; 

 Hon. J. A. Calder, Provincial Treasurer 

 of Saskatchewan; Hon. A. C. Ruther- 

 ford, Premier and Provincial Treasurer 

 of Alberta; Hon. F. J. FuHon, Com- 

 missioner of Lands and Works of British 

 Columbia; Hon. Benjamin Rogers, of 

 Alberton, P.E.I.; Prof. Howard Murray, 

 of Dalhousie University, Halifax, N S.; 

 Messrs. Frank Davison, of Bridgewater, 

 N.S.; Cecil C. Jones. M.A.,- PhD., 

 Chancellor of the University of New 

 Brunswick; W. B. Snowball, of Chatham 

 N.B.; Dr. Henri S. Beland, M.P., of 

 Beauce, P.O.; F. D. Monk, M.P., 

 Montreal, P.O.; Dr. W. J. Robertson, 

 President of Macdonald College, Ste. 

 Anne de Bellevue, P.Q.; Mgr. J. C. K. 



