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National Transcontinental to Win- 

 nipeg, and see the blackened waste 

 which should be one of our great- 

 est tourist attractions. On the Lievre 

 River there is a large tract of coun- 

 try where the hills are of white 

 quartz. Fire has passed over it 

 and the rain has washed away the 

 burnt soil, and to-day seen in sum- 

 mer, from a distance, they look 

 like snow-capped peaks. There is 

 another hill of this character at 

 Riviere a Pierre Junction, on the Q. 

 and L. St. J. R.R. At Lachute, Que., 

 and along the line of the C.P.R., 

 near Berthier Junction may be seen 

 the drifting sands which have 

 swept over several square miles of 

 once fertile country, turning it into 

 a desert. Fortunately, our progres- 

 sive Minister of Lands and Forests, 

 the Hon. Jules Allard, through his 

 chief forester, Mr. G. C. Piche, has 

 begun the work of checking this 

 menace, and at Lachute has planted a 

 large area with beech, grass, and 

 young trees to hold back the devour- 

 ing sand. 



AUSTRALIA ISSUES A JOURNAL 

 The Canadian Forestry Journal 

 greets the first issue of "The Austra- 

 lian Forestry Journal," published 

 by the New South Wales Forestry 

 Commission, Sydney, Australia. 



The magazine represents an 

 effort to arouse public sentiment 

 to the importance of forestry and 

 to disseminate information as to 

 Australia's imperative need for con- 

 servative policies. It is bound to 

 attain its object if the ne\*siness 

 of the first issue is maintained. 



BOY SCOUT LECTURES 



A number of special illustrated 

 lectures to large assemblies of Boy 

 Scouts is being arranged by the 

 various headquarters of the Boy 

 Scout movement in Ontario and 

 Quebec for the Secretary of the 

 Canadian Forestry Association. It 

 is expected, also, that out-of-doors 

 lectures will be given on Conser- 

 vation topics while the boys are 

 encamped at various outing places 

 during the month of June. 





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