Canndidii Forcslrij JounuiL .hniuuiij, 1U17 



915 



BRUSH WELL PILED FOR BURNING. AN OPERATION SUPERVISED BY DOMINION FORESTRY 

 BRANCH ON DOMINION LANDS IN ALBERTA. 



Ontario's Protective Plan Under Wap 





Mr. E. J. Zavitz, Forester of On- 

 tario, who was recently given charge 

 by Hon. G. H. Ferguson of the new 

 department to re-organize the forest 

 protection service will spend the 

 greater part of the winter in Northern 

 Ontario locating the areas most in 

 need of protection and arranging for 

 co-operative action wherever possible. 

 A Toronto newspaper article has the 

 following: 



"Hon. Mr. Ferguson has been in 

 communication with representative 

 lumbermen for some time on the sub- 

 ject, and it is expected the lumbering 

 companies, having a common interest 

 with the Province in protecting the 

 forests, will assist in the work of fire 

 prevention and bear their share of 

 the cost. 



Thousands of bushels of timothy 

 and alsike clover seed are to be sent 

 into the burned-over areas of 'North- 

 ern Ontario next spring to make good 

 the damage to pasturage. 



The Minister further announced 

 that he intended to have all Govern- 

 ment lands in the burned districts 



seeded. The seeding would serve a 

 double purpose in that it would by 

 furnishing a green Cover help to pre- 

 vent the starting and spread of fresh 

 fires, and by furnishing thousands of 

 acres of good pasture land for settlers' 

 cattle. The step is an extension of 

 the plan adopted this summer of 

 furnishing free seed to settlers to fix 

 up their pasture. 



To protect the small municipalities 

 in the North whose safety is menaced 

 by the presence of standing timber 

 near their doors, it is possible that 

 legislation will be introduced this 

 session to give the corporations some 

 authority over wooded lots in the 

 surrounding country. In some sec- 

 tions of the north owners of land close 

 to the towns have left it standing, 

 unimproved for years. It was the 

 proximity of such wooded lots to 

 several of the municipalities in the 

 North that brought about their de- 

 struction last summer. The matter 

 has not been definitely decided upon, 

 but some^ such plan is to be shaped 

 up." 



