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Canadian Forestrij Journal Februarij, 191^ 



New Brunswick Decides For New 

 Forest Service 



Telegram from Hon. E. A. Smith, 

 Minister of Lands and Mines, New 

 Brunswick, to the Canadian Forestry 

 Association, Feb. 2nd, 1918: "Our 

 Government is preparing a Forest 

 Act to be introduced at coming 

 session for the better protection of 

 our forest lands placing same under 

 a Forestry Commission to control all 

 branches pertaining thereto, with 

 permanent staff of employees ap- 

 pointed on qualification and merit 

 only." 



Readers of the Forestry Journal 

 who have been following the pro- 

 gressive developments in New Bruns- 

 wick will read the foregoing definite 

 commitment of Dr. Smith with much 

 gratification. It is assumed that the 

 Forestry Commission will contain 

 representatives of the Government, 

 the licensees of limits and owners of 

 "granted" lands. The Forest Act 



referred to is in course of preparation 

 and after the thorough consideration 

 given to the question by the Govern- 

 ment, with examination of other pro- 

 vincial systems and a series of con- 

 sultations with forest service auth- 

 orities, the Act is certain to assure the 

 Province a modern and effective form 

 of administration. 



Fire protection is by no means the 

 only undertaking for which the forest 

 service will be responsible. It is 

 probable that in recent years the loss 

 to the public through careless opera- 

 ting of timber tracts mainly by 

 jobbers, has brought about a heavier 

 annual waste of the forest than 

 through the agency of fire. There- 

 fore, the duty of the Forest Service 

 under the new act will be to super- 

 vise the cutting and eliminate as much 

 needless waste as possible. This will 

 require not only a clearly worded Act 

 but resolute administration. 



In The Forests of France 



The following is an extract from a 

 letter received by Mr. R. H. Camp- 

 bell, Director. of Forestry, Ottawa, 

 from Captain W. H. Millar, formerly 

 Professor at the Toronto Forest 

 School, and now with the 10th Forest 

 Engineers of United States in France: 

 We are located in a region now of 

 quite large Scotch pine timber, which is 

 just exactly the same as some of our 

 red pine stands in Northern Ontario, 

 except that the soil is not by any 

 means as dry and sandy as we gener- 

 ally find where red pine grows pure. 

 We are making a clean cut, first 

 cutting out the under storey of hard- 

 wood and grubbing the stumps in 

 order to prevent sprout reproduc- 

 tion. This is a planted forest about 

 75 years old and there are trees in it 



well over a hundred feet high and 

 from 18 to 20 inches in diameter at 

 the butt. However, there is not 

 much of this kind of timber in our 

 immediate vicinity, but very large 

 areas of immature stands. I am 

 sorry that I am not able to give you a 

 detailed account of our trip across 

 because I am sure it would be rather 

 interesting to you both as a Canadian 

 and a Scotchman. We received a 

 most enthusiastic welcome in Great 

 Britain which surprised us to a certain 

 extent, especially when we found the 

 French rather undemonstrative, 

 though extremely friendly. 



"Although it is now almost 

 Christmas we have not yet had what 

 we would call cold weather in Canada 

 and apparently there is not going to 

 be much winter to speak of. 



