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Canadian Forestry Journal, Ain/usi, 1918 



isaiion, the commercial utilisation 

 and marketing of forest produce and 

 the technology and uses of wood. 



(3) Great Britain can give Canada 

 facilities for studying the commercial 

 utilisation of limber in this country, 

 so as to develop the markets here for 

 Canadian timbers. 



(4) Canada has mature forests of 

 Douglas Fir and other timbers which 

 we desire to produce in this country, 

 and therefore wish to study. We 

 shall require also quantities of tree 

 seeds of the best types from the 

 forests of Canada. 



(5) Great Britain has old scientific 

 societies and unique facilities for 

 scientific research, and is also in 

 close touch with Continental centres 

 and facilities for practical and theoret- 

 ical forestry education. 



We should make amends for our 

 past indifference and start a national 

 campaign to encourage forestry, not 

 only in Great Britain, but throughout 

 the British Empire. 



Big Arrears in Building. 



Enormous demands will be made 

 for timber throughout this country 

 and nearly all Europe for reconstruc- 

 tion after the war. The matter will, 

 therefore, compel the utmost atten- 

 tion. After hostilities have ceased, 

 there will naturally follow a transition 

 period before normal conditions 

 return. During this time, unless 

 our main supplies of timber can be 

 obtained from Canada, we shall be 

 only one of many eager competitors 

 for those of Russia and Scandinavia. 

 A certain proportion of the Baltic 

 supplies will be forthcoming from 

 the sources developed before the war, 

 but it is doubtful how far this quan- 

 tity will go towards meeting our 

 requirenlents or at what cost it will 

 be obtainable. 



There are big arrears of repairs 

 and reconstruction on our railways, 

 in industrial undertakings, and in 

 private establishments. For these 

 and other developments large quan- 

 tities of timber will be required. 



something of life at the front during 

 the last four years, can realize what 

 an enormous quantity of timber has 

 been taken from this country for 

 war purposes, and what an enormous 

 amount of planting and tending of 

 trees will be necessany' to replace it. 

 Unfortunately foresters who really 

 understand all that afforestation 

 means are not numerous in England, 

 and though the necessity of educating 

 youngsters for the work has received 

 much more serious attention in the 

 last few years than it ever did before, 

 when our methods — as in many other 

 things — were haphazard, the facilities 

 are still hardly sufficient to give us 

 enough foresters to cope with the 

 demand. 



FORESTRY AFTER THE WAR. 



Westminster Gazette; Nobody, 

 except those of us who have seen 



RUINED FORESTS OF VERDUN 



Lovers used to stroll arm in arm 

 through the well-ordered forests of 

 Verdun. To stroll arm in arm where 

 these forests once stood is no longer 

 possible, Gouverneur Morris writes 

 in Collier's. You must go alone. If 

 there has been rain you should have 

 nails in your boots. The smooth 

 convolutions of the hills have been 

 tortured and turned into ridges and 

 hollows like the Atlantic ocean during 

 the equinoctial gales. 



I doubt if there is to be found one 

 single square yard of the original for- 

 est floor. I doubt if there is to be 

 found one single perfect example of 

 a shell crater. One crater breaks into 

 the next, and there, merged into one 

 shocking hollow, are a dozen which 

 at the first moment of looking ap- 

 peared to have been but one. 



It has been well but truly "work- 

 ed," that forest floor; but not for 

 100 years can it ever again be worked 

 by man in any peaceful and profitable 

 pursuit. Rich soil (doubly rich now,) 

 it will be shunned by the farmer with 

 his plow; a prospect very rich in 

 copper and iron, the prospector will 

 shun it, for here, buried and half- 

 buried, the shells, great and little, 

 which did not explode at all, are as 

 thick as temptation in the life of 

 evei'v man. 



