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Canadian Foresliij Journal, Julij, 1918 



Railivaij Safeguards. 



During the close season all steam 

 engines (locomotive or stationary) 

 operating inside of, or up to a quarter 

 of a mile from timber must have 

 spark arresters and devices for pre- 

 venting the escaping of fire or live 

 coals from ash pans or fire-boxes, 

 burners, chimneys and smoke-stacks 

 must have spark arresters, and open 

 waste-burners must be properly safe- 

 guarded. During the close season 

 fire-fighting tools must be kept ready 

 for use, and no locomotive or engine 

 may dump fire or live coals unless 

 these are immediately extinguished. 

 Railways under provincial jurisdic- 

 tion passing through forested land 

 are specially provided for, and no 

 existing statute regulating them is 

 repealed or at all interfered with. 

 Locomotive engines must have the 

 most approved fire-protective appara- 

 tus, and every engineer must see 

 that those appliances are properly 

 used and applied. The right of way 

 must be patrolled at least once a 

 day and must be kept fiee from dead 

 or dry grass or weeds and other 

 combustible matter. Extra patrol 

 may be ordered by the Minister 

 when deemed necessary, and if his 

 instructions are not carried or.t li^ 

 patrol may be established at the 

 expense of the company. Railway 

 companies are made responsible for 

 all fires within three hundred feet 

 of their right of way, unless they can 

 prove the fire not to have been caused 

 by the Company or its employees. 

 No railway company completing the 

 construction of a lin3 after the passage 

 of the Act may operate locomotives 

 on the line .mtil the Minister has 

 certified that the right of way has 

 been cleared of inflammable materiil. 

 The Minister may appoint fire rang- 

 ers, under a Chief Ranger, to patrol 

 railways under construcli^n. Rail- 

 way companies mast put their 

 employees at the disposal of the 

 Chief Ranger to assist in extinguish- 

 ing fire. Nothing in -the act is to 

 be held to limit the right of any 

 person to bring civil suit for damages 

 caused by fire. 



Wild Lands Tax Act. 



Provides for a tax on alfwild lands 



exceeding five hundred acres of one 

 cent per acre when held by residents 

 of the pro/ince and two cents per 

 acre when held by non-residents. 

 Part of the funds realized are to be 

 paid over to the Protection Fund 

 created by the Forest Act as above 

 noted. 



The Act prohibiting the export of 

 pulpwood from Crown Lands was 

 amended by adding to the "Manu- 

 facturing Clause" a statement to 

 the effect that cutting such wood into 

 cordwood or other lengths and "ross- 

 ing" or peeling the bark, were not 

 "manufaciuring" VNithin the meaning 

 of the Act. Poplar wood is also 

 restricted from being exported. Un- 

 manufactured pulpwood grown on 

 ungranted Crown lands may be ex- 

 ported to the United Kingdom until 

 two months after the declaration of 

 peace. 



Dominion Lands 



The Dominion Forest Reserves 

 and Parks Act was amended to 

 provide (1) that where existing road 

 allowances are, for topographic reas- 

 ons, found unsuitable, the Provincial 

 government may be permitted, by 

 Order in Council, to exchange these 

 for suitable road allowances, and (2) 

 that the government of British Col- 

 umbia be given the right to the 

 non-precious metals found within the 

 Forest Reserves. 



The Forest Reserve Regulations 

 were amended in a number of parti- 

 culars, the general tenor of the 

 amendments being as foilows:-(l) 

 The regulations in regard to timber 

 permits were changed so as to provide 

 that the quantity of timber so granted 

 should be limited, not by a specified 

 quantity of timber of each class, but 

 by a certain amount oi dues, thus 

 allowing greater latitude as to the 

 respective quantities of the various 

 classes of timber that can be taken • 

 out, (2) trespass is more clearly 

 defined, (3) Regulations in regard lo 

 the use of fire are improved: (4) 

 Regulations in regard to operation 

 are improved in some points, (5) 

 Regulations as to the granting of 

 permits for the cutting oidead timber 

 on the forest resen^es are made more 

 elastic so as to give every encourage- 



