62 Forests and Trees 



BRITISH COLUMBIA AREA 



Hat Creek 340 square miles 



Coast Fire Ranging District 3,200 square miles 



Revelstoke Ranging District 2,520 square miles 



Salmon Arm Ranging District 3,97o square miles 



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These reserves have been selected with the greatest care. 



They include not only those regions more suitable for 

 growing timber than for any other purpose, but also they 

 usually protect the sources of streams or include stretches 

 of sand which, if ploughed, would endanger adjoining 

 farms. The drifting sand will travel with the prevailing 

 wind and literally bury farms. This menace is a very 

 real one in many places on the shores of the sea or the 

 Great Lakes. 



Shifting sand dunes are a terror to the owners of adjoin- 

 ing property and are very difficult to control. The sand 

 hills found in different parts of the prairie region are but 

 the dunes of an ancient shore. The retirement of the water 

 has enabled them to become clothed with grass, trees or 

 bushes, and they are, therefore, safe. If this cover is 

 thoughtlessly or ignorantly destroyed by trying to bring 

 these stretches under cultivation, the sand will be released, 

 to be blown ahead of the wind and become an annoyance 

 if not a positive source of danger. In spite of the value 

 of these reserves and the care that has been bestowed upon 

 their selection and administration, the charge is sometimes 

 made that settlers intentionally set out fires where they 

 will burn over portions of the reserve, in order to increase 

 the probability of the land being opened for homesteads. 



