Canadidn Forcslrij JournaK Mdirh, 7.0/7 



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In the North of France, fuel gathering is now done by Women and Boys chiefly. 

 Note how carefully branches are being utilized. 



the taking of this easily accessible 

 supply is now practically at an end. 

 You will be forced from this time on 

 to go much further for your timber, 

 and to cut it from places very in- 

 accessible, and your logging costs are 

 bound to increase, not gradually, but 

 with a jump. The way in which 

 the forests have been cut over, and 

 the carelessness in regard to fire, 

 which existed up to five years ago, 

 have left waste many large districts 

 which should have been useful to 

 you for many years to come. 



The way in which the cutting has 

 been carried on, taking the timber 

 from the borders of lakes and run- 

 ning streams has practically come to 

 an end, and the method of cutting 

 by which choppers have been allow- 

 ed to go into the woods and prac- 

 tically select the timber which they 

 were cutting and leave the rest, has 

 left it so scattered that it will be 

 very expensive and very difficult to 

 cut up. 



Competition Valueless 



The time has come when this cpies- 

 tion should be taken up ard exam- 

 ined carefully. In the woods there 



is no reason whatever for competi- 

 tion, but as a matter of fact should 

 only compete with each other in try- 

 ing to get your logs out as cheaply 

 as possible. This can be done more 

 efficiently by co-operation. There is 

 no reason why you should compete 

 in the question of labor or provisions, 

 but by getting together and planning 

 your operations together, and plan- 

 ning them with some idea of the pre- 

 servation of the forests, and you can 

 certainly have some great economics 

 and economies which will preserve 

 the forests over the greatest term of 

 years. 



The scarcity of pulp wood is an 

 important factor in the high price 

 of paper, and these will increase from 

 time to time, and some steps or m.ea- 

 sures must be taken to prepare the 

 forests for the future, and also the 

 question of the waste of material in 

 the woods should be taken up, as 

 the way the waste is allowed to ac- 

 cumulate now is one of the most 

 serious fire hazards that we have; 

 makes easy the starting of the fires, 

 and the extinguishing of them much 

 more difficult, and destroys the refor- 

 estation which you should be getting. 



