32 COMMISSION OF CONSERVATION 



Township Acres Total 



Limerick 7,500 



Tudor 1,500 



Cardiff 1,200 



Harvey 1,000 



Guilford 500 



Stanhope 250 



Eyre 150 



12,100 



178,840 

 (At least 175,000 acres of the total given above are in the former pine lands.) 



The fire in Anson and Lutterworth had its origin outside the region 

 considered by this report, where it burned over much larger areas. 

 The Tudor lire also burned a much larger area outside the territory 

 upon which this report is based. 



The burning of the areas given above was due to i6 separate fires. 

 The origin of 4 of these fires is reported as unknown ; 4 as having been 

 set with malicious intent ; 3 from farmers working in hay marshes ; 2 

 from a railway engine ; i from the camp fire of tourists ; i from berry 

 pickers ; and i from lightning. Ten of these 16 fires started on crown 

 lands not patrolled by a fire ranger* Two of the six fires occurring on 

 patrolled lands are reported as having been set deliberately. The 

 destruction on the three largest areas, namely, the Anstruther-Bur- 

 leigh-Cavendish area, the Glamorgan-Snowdon area and the Lake- 

 Methuen area, totalling 148,420 acres, or 84 per cent of the entire area 

 burned, was the result of 5 fires, and three of these started on crown lands 

 where there was no actual fire patrol. The other two fires started in 

 patrolled timber limits in a region where one ranger is charged with the 

 surveillance of about 100 square miles. 



In regions not suffering from forest fires there is a tendency to 

 minimize the damage they cause. One often hears the expression : 

 "No particiilar damage was done, as the fire ran through cut-over 

 lands." It is well to consider how Httle comprehension of the facts of 

 the case such statements involve. For example, we may make the 

 following charges to the account of the recent forest fires in the Trent 

 valley. 



Expenditures in Fighting Forest Fires 



Peterborough Lumber Co $2,500 



Wood Products Co. of Canada 350 



Gull River Lumber Co 250 



Minden village, 100 days' labour 200 



Farmers in Anson and Lutterworth, 75 days' labour 150 



Farmers in Glamorgan and Snowdon, ISO days' labour 360 



Farmers in Anstruther, Burleigh, and Cavendish, 200 days' labour 400 



Farmers in Lake and Methuen, 50 days' labour 100 



Total $4,310 



* The cut-over lands within timbc^r limits are not actually patrolled by the fire 

 rangers for reasons stated on pages 64 and 84. 



