90 COMMISSION OF CONSERVATION 



occupy about one-quarter of the area. Havelock has a prevailing 

 coniferous forest of spruce, hemlock, balsam and pine, covering 28,000 

 acres within the watershed, and it is all virgin and semi- virgin. The 

 forests of Eyre are also coniferous ; the western half of the drainage 

 basin containing spruce, balsam, and pine ; the eastern half spruce, 

 balsam, hemlock and scrubby hardwoods. These cover some 25,000 

 acres and they have been only slightly culled. 



