THE LAURENTIDES PARK 



this would be appears by the considered 

 opinion of a man whose qualifications to 

 make a statement on the subject are 

 absolute, that for every dollar's worth 

 of lumber brought to market in Canada 

 twenty dollars' worth are destroyed by 

 fire. 



It is probable that the whole country- 

 side was burned over many years ago, 

 perhaps at the time of the great Sague- 

 nay fire, and that in the barrens already 

 spoken of the soil itself was consumed. 

 An Indian trapper of great age, who 

 died a generation ago, affirmed that 

 these were en bois vert in his youth. If 

 his story is true it gives convincing 

 proof that a century does little or noth- 

 ing towards repairing the damage to the 

 humus. The moss with which the bar- 

 rens are now covered burns like tinder 

 in dry weather, nor is it replaced in 

 twenty-five years. Spare a moment then 

 to extinguish your camp-fire, and see 

 that the match with which you have 



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