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Canadian Forestry Journal, fchruary, 1918 



Forests in Canada's Arctic 



In an article in the Geographical 

 Review by R. M. Anderson, giving 

 an account of the explorations in the 

 Canadian Arctic coast, the following 

 data regarding "timber areas" are 

 given : 



"The northern limit of spruce trees 

 on the Coppermine River is about 20 

 miles from the coast, although some 

 stragglers are found growing 5 to 10 

 miles from the coast on Naparktok- 

 tuok Creek, a few miles east of the 

 river. Willows of good size, and from 

 10 to 15 feet high, are found in many 

 places north of the tree line, and 

 persist until they dwindle to small 

 ground-creeping shrubs on the north- 

 ern islands and wind-swept mainland 

 coast. 



"To the west there are no trees 

 anywhere near the coast until we come 

 to Franklin Bay, where we find spruce 

 of fair size 10 or 15 miles inland, in the 

 valley of Horton River. Spruce 

 comes rather close to the coast on 

 the Anderson River south of Liver- 

 pool Bay. Still farther west we find 

 the great northward extension of 

 limber in the Mackenzie delta, fair- 

 sized trees occurring northward 

 nearly to Richard Island about 150 

 miles north of the Arctic Circle. 



"On the Horton River, the Copper- 

 mine River, around Dismal Lake, and 

 to a less extent farther west, we often 

 noted the large proportion (in some 

 places 90 per cent.) of dead spruce 

 trees near the northern limit of tim- 

 l)er. There seemed little evidence 

 of fire destruction,and the explanation 

 that the northern regions are becom- 

 ing colder and the vegetation re- 

 treating seemed inconclusive. On 

 one of our winter trips Mr. Johansen 

 accompanied a sledge party south- 

 ward to the timber-line on the 

 (Coppermine River and made a care- 

 ful study of conditions. He found 

 that practically all the dead trees 

 showed traces of the ravages of bark 

 beetles, three species of them being 

 found." 



VON ALVENSLEBEN SOLD OUT 



The case of the Red Cliff Land & 

 Lumber Company vs. Alvo von 

 Alvensleben has been before the 

 British Columbia courts for almost 

 two years but the end is now in 

 sight. Alvensleben a German of 

 high lineage who was in business in 

 Vancouver is now interned at Salt 

 Lake City having been located at 

 Seattle for many months immediately 

 previous to the United States entering 

 the war. In 1911 he bought a large 

 area of timber from the plaintiff 

 company, the purchase price of which 

 was in the neighborhood of S2,200,- 

 000. At the outbreak of the war 

 there had been paid $1,700,000, and 

 the original action was for fore- 

 closure because of the final amounts 

 owing under the agreement and also 

 for interest. The application for 

 fore-closure was abandoned because 

 it would have been in the nature of 

 a forfeiture and the action just de- 

 cided was for a declaration of amounts 

 due as a first lien against the pro- 

 perty; that the property should be 

 sold' and that the plaintiffs should 

 be permitted to bid on it at the sale. 

 This the court allowed. 



NEW OFFICERS C.S.F.E. 



The following officers were elected 

 at the Annual Meeting of the Cana- 

 dian Society of Forest Engineers at 

 the University Club, Montreal, Wed- 

 nesday, February 6th. : 



President, Ellwood Wilson. 



Vice-President, J. H. White. 



Secretary, Clyde Leavitt. 



The meeting was a most successful 

 one in every respect, Mr. .W. F. V. 

 Atkinson, Forester of the Spanish 

 River Pulp and Paper Mills, Ltd., 

 gave an excellent paper which will be 

 reproduced in the next issue of the 

 Forestry Journal. 



