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sacrifice of a very great future benefit in order to bring al)Oiit a very much 

 smaller present saving. The Government, however, is dependent for its 

 appropriations upon the state of public sentiment. If there is an over- 

 whelming belief on the part of the public at large that the young forests of 

 the province must be protected, even at the cost of more severe present 

 financial sacrifice, the Government will be able to make the necessary provi- 

 sion. Every citizen of the province is directly interested in this important 

 matter. 



With a Forester in a Tank Corps 



Lieut. C. H. Morse, a well-known Canadian Forester is now with the 

 Tank Corps at Wareham, Dorset, reverting in rank to secure a place. A 

 breezy letter from his pen reads as follows: 



"As you see by the heading I am now in the Tank Corps and have been 

 in this particular camp since the middle of June. There certainly is nothing 

 soft about our work here. It is the hardest sort of physical work and besides 

 that it is extremely dirty. One can't stand upright in a tank, so it is very 

 cramping. It is very hot and dusty. When we quit driving, our faces are 

 absolutely black except for round spots around the eyes protected by goggles. 

 After spending three or four hours in the suffocating atmosphere of a tankone 

 is very glad to get out and get a smoke. 



In spite of the disagreeable nature of the work liove it. It is fine to 

 crawl into a tank feeling that you can go practically anywhere. We have 

 huge areas dotted with shell holes and with trenches and wire entanglements. 

 I've never had a machine stuck yet although they pitch about in a most alarm- 

 ing way. When you get a tank perched vertically on its nose or tail it makes 

 you hold your breath as it starts to tip over. The jar isn't really so bad on 

 ordinary soft ground when travelling slowly. When going on top speed 

 througli bad holes a man gets rather badly knocked about. 



A fortune in Chestnut. 



If you could only get a market for some of the "brush" along the Rockies, 

 at what the 10-14 year old Chestnut coppice shoots sell for here, you could be 

 blissfully regardless of whether the Ottawa estimates "went through" or 

 not. "Twelve year sprouts" down in Kent, even before the war, had a stump- 

 age value of $600. an acre. It is most valuable then, because possessing the 

 greatest number of uses — chiefly for fencing, hop-poles, barrel and "tank 

 hoops, faggot-wood, etc. The capital locked up and the care required in 

 this kind of forestry are small^ but of course it's a bit hard on the land. 



FOREST RESERVES ESCAPE FIRE nest, Cypress Hills and Lesser Slave 



— Reserves, however, there have been 



From the Dominion Forestry Branch ^^^ ^.^"^^ emergencies. As previ- 



'' News Letter'' Issued at ously intimated Supervisor Doucet 



Calgary. 



had numerous fires. On the Bow 

 River, Greenwood had one bad fire 

 Although we have had somewhat to fight in the valley of the Red 

 dilapidated staff it seems that we can Deer River. This fire^ however, was 

 at least congratulate ourselves on kept entirely outside the Reserve 

 getting through so far with a very and was finally extinguished. On the 

 successful fire season. The Atha- other reserves all fires have been 

 basca and Brazeau Reserves seem confined to small ones with the 

 to have been pretty well favored by exception of the Cooking Lake 

 weather conditions all through. On Reserv ewhere in the spring they had 

 the Clearwater, Bow River, Crows- numerous large grass fires. 



