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Canadian Forcslri/ Journal. June, 1918 



Paying the Fire Fiend His Price 



( Excerpt from A'eu) Brunswick Forest Service report.) 



The loss due to the destruction of 

 timber alone, to say nothini> of the 

 rendering of the soil unfit for good 

 natural reproduclion, is so enormous 

 that it surpasses the ordinary imag- 

 ination. It is the common belief 

 among the people, and is ])robably 

 true, that had not Cains River been 

 so severely burned, that the vast pine 

 and spruce forests would have been 



almost inexhaustible, .and that this 

 area would still hold the important 

 place in the forest industry of the 

 Province that it held in the early 

 days of exploitation of the timber 

 lands of New Brunswick. The need 

 of proper fire protection and of 

 scientific management of our existing 

 Crown Land forests can not be too 

 strongly urged at the present time. 



60 Public Meetings in Quebec 

 in Six Weeks 



Some first-class propagandist work 

 has been carted out this month in 

 Quebec Provxnce by Messrs. Victor 

 Baillarge and Gustave Tessier of the 

 Department of Lands and Forests. 

 The Canadian Forestry Association 

 was privileged to co-operate with the 

 Department in the arranging of a 

 series of public meetings in the ter- 

 ritory of the Laurentian Forest Pro- 

 tective Association and the St. 

 Maurice Forest Protective Associa- 

 tion, covering Central Quebec on the 

 north side of the St. Lawrence. The 

 managers of these associations gave 

 thorough and valuable co-operation 

 in the scheme and went to much 

 trouble in making local arrange- 

 ments through members of their 

 staffs. 



The preparations, however, bore 



abundant fruit. Although the idea 

 of public forest protection meetings 

 is something of a novelty in parts of 

 Quebec. Messrs. Tessier and Bail- 

 large met with a goodly reception 

 and were able to deliver illustrated 

 addresses to audiences seldom running 

 below 150 persons and reaching 400 

 and 450. The assistance of the par- 

 ish priests was admirable and other 

 leading citizens were glad to give the 

 meetings any help they could. 



The consequences of these public 

 lectures, (about 60 since the third 

 week of May) can hardly be measured 

 in mathematical equivalents. It is 

 well-known that ignorance, prejudice, 

 indifference are the great trio of forest 

 destroyers in all parts of Canada, and 

 there is no way of combatting them 

 except by the educational method. 



GOATS FOR BRUSH CLEARING 



The use of domestic stock to keep 

 down brush along fire guards and 

 railroad rights-of-way ma>' be a 

 rather novel idea to the forest ranger, 

 but I will back twenty goats to do 

 more work and do it better in brush 

 destruction than one man. When 

 once the large timber and all over 

 eight feet high is down, then leave it 

 to the goats to dolherest. They will 

 surely keep down brush sprouts and 



young timber. Herds of angora, 

 numbering five hundred or so, herded 

 slowly along the old tote roads will 

 keep them from ever growing back 

 into brush. One will be surprised 

 at the way a few goats will travel 

 along a road nipping twigs and leaves. 

 They are almost continuous in their 

 work, travel and eat all day and at 

 night they are easily corralled. 



When fires would come to tkese 

 pastured roads there would be small 



