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Canadian Forestry Journal, March, 1917 



Forest Reserve, has been in the East 

 for several weeks undergoing an opera- 

 tion. 



$1.75 for Cutting Cordwood 



Student Assistant Snow who has 

 been assigned to the Pasquia Forest 

 Reserve for the past year reports con- 

 siderable cordwood activity this win- 

 ter on account of the high price being 

 paid. Men are receiving $1.75 per 

 cord for cutting in the bush. 



Mr. D. N. McDonald is having a 

 successful winter, logging operation 

 on his timber sale. 



Mr. E. L. Olsen of Weldon, Sask- 

 atchewan has been awarded a timber 

 sale for a million feet of jack pine on 

 the Fort a la Corne Forest Reserve 

 and Ranger A. Vandine reports that 

 most of material will be disposed of 

 to the settlers to the south and west 

 of the Reserve. 



Ranger Badly Hurt 



Ranger in Charge John McBride 

 of the Sturgeon Forest Reserve was 

 badly injured, having a log fall on 

 him during the construction of a 

 barn. Several ribs were fractured 

 and he was injured on one side of 

 the head. He has recovered how- 

 ever, and is now back at work. 



The Prince Albert Lumber Com- 

 pany are cutting some thirty million 

 feet of spruce on their limits in this 

 Reserve and have four steam haulers 

 landing the timber on the Little Red 

 River. 



Several timber sales have been 

 awarded on the Porcupine Forest 

 Reserve but owing to the depth of 

 the snow, their operations have been 

 considerably hindered. 



Chief Fire Ranger Thompson of 

 the District Office spent the month 

 of January on the Porcupine Reserve 

 inspecting timber sales and improve- 

 ments and reports very severe wea- 

 ther and much activity at Head- 

 quarters in the cordwood line "Keep- 

 ing the home fires burning." 



Chief Fire Ranger H. Lockhart 

 of the Battleford Fire Ranging Dis- 

 trict resigned his position recently. 



The Saskatchewan motto and by- 

 word for 1917 is "Have you burned 

 your brush?" The infection is spread- 

 ing. 



CEDAR SUPPLIES IN B. C. 



"It is the consensus of ^opinion 

 among those who are well acquainted 

 with the timber resources of British 

 Columbia that the extent of the 

 standing timber is not nearly so great 

 as might be first supposed. The 

 handy cedar to Vancouver is pretty 

 well exhausted and the manufacturers 

 of cedar shingles on either side of the 

 line who are being carried away with 

 the idea that there are inexhaustible 

 quantities of red cedar in British 

 Columbia may probably wake up 

 some morning to find that their esti- 

 mates have been too great." — News 

 note in "The Timberman," Portland, 

 Ore. 



TREES 



{By Stephen Henry Thayer). 

 What is the wisdom taught of the trees? 

 Something of energy,something of ease ; 

 Steadfastness rooted in passionless 



peace. 

 Life-giving verdure to upland and glen; 

 Graces — compelling the praises of men ; 

 Freedom that bends to the eagle and 



wren. 

 Largess — expanding in ripeness and 



size; 

 Shadow^ that shelters the foolish and 



wise; 

 Patience that bows 'neath all winds 



of the skies. 

 Uprightness — standing for truth like 



a tower; 

 Dignity — symbol of honor and power; 

 Beauty that blooms in the ultimate 



flower! 



AN ALBERTA MESSAGE 

 Coleman, Feb. 13, 1917. 

 Canadian Forestry Association: — 



"Enclosed is my subscription for 

 1917. I wish the Association every 

 success in the work it is doing" 



T. H. Y. 



Mr. Henry Sorgius, Manager of the 

 St. Maurice Forest Protective Asso- 

 ciation, will be sent on a tour of the 

 Province, by the Department of 

 Lands and Forests, to try to get the 

 limit holders who are not already 

 members of the Cooperative Asso- 

 ciations to form new ones in their 

 respective districts. 



