CanaiUun Foreslrij JournaL March, V.)17 



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Forestry Keystone of Wood Industries 



Efficiency Demands Application of Highest Economic 

 Handling the Raw Materials. 



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By Ellwood Wilson, Forester of the Laurentide Co., before Canadian 

 Pulp and Paper Association, Montreal. 



The question of inventories of tim- 

 ber resources is a very important one, 

 for no company which is ignorant 

 of the amount of timber it possesses 

 can be said to be well managed or 

 in sound condition and cannot lay 

 out its work for the future in a busi- 

 ness like way. 



The utilization of our timber re- 

 sources is still, with three or four 

 exceptions, carried on in an old fash- 

 ioned and wasteful manner to the 

 detriment of the forest; and the 

 logging costs of the future will be 

 greatly raised by such methods. 



As cheap wood and cheap power 

 are vital to our industry it may not 

 be amiss to call the attention of our 

 members to the close connection be- 

 tween the removal of the timber and 

 the impairment of the water powers. 

 The forests undoubtedly regulate 

 the run-off, distributing it through- 

 out the year and decreasing the differ- 

 ence between extreme high and ex- 

 treme low water and they probably 

 increase the total run-off by prevent- 

 ing evaporation. It is said too that 

 they increase precipitation. There- 

 fore the removal of forests by fires 

 and by over cutting is a great menace 

 to the future of our industry and 

 should be made a matter of study by a 

 committee of this Association and 

 recommendations made to our mem- 

 bers. 



Our members should be urged to 

 join and form well managed Co- 

 operative Associations for protection 

 from forest fires. 



As several of our members have 

 begun to plant trees on a large scale 

 the question of taxation where- they 

 are planting on their own lands should 

 be studied. Also the question of 

 guarantee by the government that 



MR. ELLVV30D WILSON 



those who plant on licensed lands will 

 cut the trees they plant and will be 

 properly reimbursed for their invest- 

 ment by reduction of stumpage dues 

 at the time of cutting must be taken 

 up. 



The government of Quebec should 

 be urged to compel all licensees to 

 take better measures for protection 

 of the forests against fire. During 

 the past season the territories pa- 

 trolled by the Co-operative Associa- 

 tions were in great danger from fires 

 originating on lands adjacent. 



