f.li were at cue time covered, with 

 bunch grass, several feet in height. 7.f each :i 3 

 the case, and vrhether fire.? v/ere out Dai "by the 

 India iis cr car.ced "by "Lightning, fire u'.ui'.d un- 

 doubtedly sweep over the country aixl V.:".1."L a.n. forms 

 of vegetation in its path. 



The region south of G liver Lake Post 

 Office including the north west slope of Ilager 

 KoiTn tains in Township 29 S., Range 14 S., W. II., ap- 

 pears to "be a typical example of such a case. Here 

 a fire about 100 to!20 years ago has left a trail 

 that shores that it started somewhere in t.he flat 

 at the base of the mountains and killed everything 

 in its path, leaving only small patches or : Glands 

 of mature trees. This slope of the mount a inn is 

 now covered vrith a practically even-aged stand of 

 yell or/ pine, averaging about 90 years in age. 



The bGivit".,i.y o:T the natural forest, or 

 its frontier line, :.s vc:.*y irregular and has in- 

 numerable fringes here, but the tall cle^n boles of 

 the mature trees along the border and uneven-aged 

 reproduction extending out scatteringly even as far 

 as a mile from the seed trees tend to shew that a 

 much heavier stand at one time occupied the same 

 ground and will gradually gain its ground back again 



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