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Canadian Forestry Journal, March, 1917 



served to draw public attention to the 

 general question of protection against 

 forest fires. Life and property in the 

 northern areas of this Province will 

 be rendered less liable to danger from 

 this cause if amendments to the Fire 

 Prevention Act now before the Leg- 

 islature become law. 



It is proposed to render it obli- 

 gatory upon every person setting a 

 fire in th.e wooded districts of Mani- 

 toba, or within six miles of a forest 

 reserve, to possess a permit for the 

 act. These will be obtainable either 

 from a special fire guardian to be ap- 

 pointed or from a Dominion forest 

 ranger, who will have power to refuse 

 it in a dangerous season. Fire guard- 

 ians are also to be invested with 

 authority to arrest without warrant 

 any person violating the Act, the 

 burden of proof being on the defend- 

 ant. 



The institution of the permit sy- 

 stem is aimed principally at settler's 

 fires. After land-clearing operations 

 it has been a common practice to set 

 fire to the brush, often with disas- 

 trous results to vast areas of timbered 

 land, not unaccompanied by risk to 

 human life. Apart even from the 

 needless destruction of valuable 

 natural resources, the precautions 

 asked by the Fire Commissioner will 

 be generally commended. No hard- 

 ship is inflicted upon the settler by 

 placing him under the necessity to 

 observe reasonable care in setting his 

 fires. He is, in fact, relieved from the 

 possibility of unpleasant suspicion 

 by increased supervision in this 

 respect. 



Paper For Warmth 

 Paper blankets, long a familiar 

 stand-by of the hobo, have been re- 

 duced to a form acceptable to the 

 sportsman. The gentlemen of leisure 

 who first made practical use of the 

 insulating qualities of paper to se- 

 cure protection from the cold simply 

 covered themselves with old news- 

 papers. Such "blankets" were too 

 inconvenient and too fragile to ap- 



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