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Canadian Forestry Journal, April, 1918 



OUR PRESIDENT 

 Colonel J. S. Dennis, Chief Commissioner of 

 Colonization and Development of the Canadian 

 Pacific Railway; President of the Canadian 

 Forestry Association, 1918. 



HON. SMEATON WHITE 

 President, Gazette Printing Company, Mon- 

 treal; elected a Director of the Canadian Forestry 

 Association at the last annual meeting. 



Norway's Profits from Forests 



Twenty-one per cent of the King- 

 dom of Norway is covered with 

 forest — that is, about 17 miUion 

 acres. Of that, about 15 miUion 

 acres is productive forest. The Gov- 

 ernment owns about two million acres. 

 The commercial forests under Gov- 

 ernment supervision comprise about 

 one million acres. The rest, or about 

 12 millionacres of productive forest, is 

 private property. Seventy-five per 

 cent of the timber is spruce (picea ex- 

 celsa), and pine (pinus silvestris) in 

 about equal quantities, as well as some 

 oak, ash, elm and basswood. Birch 

 is found everywhere. The annual 

 forest growth or increment per acre 

 is about 21 cubic feet. Nearly all 

 the cut timber is hauled on sleighs 

 to the rivers in the winter and 

 floated to the coast in the spring. 

 The felling is now nearly all done 



by piecework, which has proved 

 to be a great success. 



The value of forest products ex- 

 ported is about $30,000,000 annually. 

 Until recently the export consisted 

 chiefly of logs and staves, but pulp, 

 planks, boards, doors and windows, 

 etc. ,have now come into prominence. 

 The pulp represents about 50 per 

 cent of the export value. 



The people have awakened to 

 the importance of improved and 

 conservative methods, and planting 

 in the coast districts has also been 

 encouraged. Most of it is done 

 by school children. Douglas fir, im- 

 ported as seed from the Pacific 

 Coast and raised in nurseries, is 

 being planted quite extensively in 

 some parts of Norway. Forestry 

 is taught in all public schools and 

 instructors give lectures in the 

 country districts. 



