1992 



Canadian Forestry Journal, December, 1918 



United States and with devastated 

 countries of Europe, transportation 

 matters, embargoes, labor, etc. Res- 

 olutions were passed urging the nec- 

 essity of immediate co-operation 

 between the Canadian Lumbermen's 

 Association and other organizations 

 having to do with forest products, 

 the provincial governments and thteir 

 forestry departments and the Federal 

 Government. It is was felt that the 

 present situation as well as future 

 development of industry required the 

 closest possible co-operation between 

 all interested parties. 



The resolutions ask not only for 

 Federal and provincial assistance of 

 a financial nature, but also in the 

 matter of organization and moral 

 support. The plan is to have one 

 representative in a European country 

 instead of half a dozen or more 

 representing separate provinces or 

 separate branches of industry. In 



the opinion of the association direc- 

 tors, lumber for reconstruction pur- 

 poses ranl<snext in importance to 

 food, while demand for lumber to- 

 gether with decreased production 

 means that prices will remain on a 

 high level for some years. 



Other matters discussed had to do 

 with standardization of their pro- 

 duct, also the formation of soldier's 

 emploNment bureau and other meas- 

 ures for taking up slackness in labor 

 caused by the closing down of muni- 

 tion plants. The association went 

 on record as being willing to co-oper- 

 aie in every possible way with the 

 Government in its efforts to assist 

 in the readjustment period following 

 the coming of peace. Altogether 

 the meeting marks a new era in his- 

 tory of the Canadian lumbering in- 

 dustry. Plans for the future develop- 

 ments were of a comprehensive and 

 far reaching nature. 



Replanting Barren Lands in Canada 



In all the provinces of Canada, 

 there are large areas of non-agricul- 

 tural lands which have been so com- 

 pletely denuded of forests by unwise 

 methods of cutting, or by fire, or both, 

 that they are in a wholly unproductive 

 condition, due to the complete de- 

 struction of all young growth and 

 seed trees. Only by planting can 

 such lands be restored to productiv- 

 ity within any reasonable length of 

 time and, thus, be made to play their 

 proper part in the economic fife 

 of the country\ 



Nowhere in Canada has such an 

 excellent start been made toward com- 

 mercial forest planting as in the pro- 

 vince of Quebec, and even here the 

 work done constitutes only a small 

 beginning, in comparison with the 

 real needs of the situation. The 

 lead in this direction has been taken 

 by the Laurentide Company, and the 

 Riordon Pulp and Paper Companv. 

 Both companies have, for some time, 

 realized the slow progress which nat- 

 ure, unaided, makes toward restoring 



the stand of commercially valuable 

 pulpwood species on our northern 

 lands after they^ have been heavily 

 cut over. 



The Laurentide Co. is the pioneer 

 having commenced planting opera- 

 tions in 1998. Up to the present, 

 a total of 453 acres has been planted 

 up by this company, mostly with 

 Norway spruce and while spruce, 

 with a smaller representation of 

 white pine, Scotch pine, red pine, 

 poplar and other minor species. 

 About 1,500 trees are planted to the 

 acre, so that the total number planted 

 to date aggregates some 680,000. 

 During 1919, the Forestry Division 

 of the Laurentide Co. expects to 

 plant about 500,000 young trees, 

 mostly Norway spruce and white 

 spruce. The programme for 1920 

 includes the planting of 700,000 trees, 

 and, for 1921, 1,000,000 trees, mostly 

 white spruce. The rate of planting 

 is to be increased until it totals 



2,000,000 trees per year 



C. L. 



