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Canadian Forestry Journal, April, 1917 



The amount of slash is not excessive, 

 except in spruce bottoms and along 

 draws on some benches, yet there is 

 enough slash to cause grave concern 

 in case of a fire. The only burning 

 done to date is along tote roads, 

 around the camp and in one bad 

 pocket at the forks of a streani. It 

 was at this spot that a fire was re- 

 cently stopped. 



Specific cost data cannot be given, 

 but will be from $4 to $8 per acre, 

 depending on topography, relation of 

 roads to waterways and stand per 

 acre. If this is charged against logg- 

 ing it may make the cost of this opera- 

 tion excessive, especially where the 

 stand is poor and logging difficult. 



Some lopping of tops has been 

 done and on some contracts, props 

 were taken from the tops. This was 

 not done for profit, but to eliminate 

 waste. 



Broadcast burning is feasible and 

 desirable on land suited to agriculture, 

 otherwise it usually is not to be 

 recommended. This method can be 

 employed in small pockets scattered 

 over an operation and if these pockets 

 are selected according to the fire risk 

 and the second growth, a great men- 

 ace will be removed. 



A universal law requiring the dis- 

 posal of all slash is not practicable 

 now. 



What Wild Life Means To Canada 



A Splendid National Asset Threatened with Quick Depletion 

 Forest Destruction a Main Contribution. 



Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, Dominion 

 Entomologist and Secretary- of the 

 recently appointed Advisory Board 

 on Wild Life Protection, delivered an 

 illustrated address on the "Conser- 

 vation of Wild Life in Canada," 

 before the Ottawa Field Naturalists 

 Club on March 6th. In the course of 

 his lecture Dr. Hewitt clearly em- 

 phasized the important interde- 

 pendence of the conservation of our 

 forests and of our wild life. The 

 destruction of our forests is one of the 

 principle factors related to the 

 diminution of the wild life resources 

 of the country. Further, he pointed 

 out how forest and non-agricultural 

 areas might be made additionally 

 productive by the conservation of 

 such animals as deer which might be 

 used to provide a native meat supply. 



The wild life, including the fur- 

 bearing and other mammals, and bird 

 life, constitutes a national resource 

 that cannot be replaced once it is lost. 

 This point was strongly emphasized 

 as a reason for taking steps to pre- 

 vent the extinction of any species. 



Canada is the last stronghold of the 

 larger game animals of North America 

 and therefore a special responsibility 

 lies on Canadians to conserve these 

 animals. Wild life is a trust and it is 

 the duty of Canadians to conserve it 

 in such a way as to insure its unim- 

 paired enjoyment by posterity. Con- 

 servation does not mean the hoarding 

 up of, but the use of our resources 

 without abuse. 



Antelope and Buffalo 



It was further pointed out that 

 there was an inevitable reduction in 

 the existing numbers of wild life 

 following the settlement of the coun- 

 try. Dr. Hewitt divided the causes 

 of reduction into two groups, avoid- 

 able and unavoidable. The disap- 

 pearance of the buffalo, of which he 

 gave a historical description, was in- 

 evitable and due to the settlement of 

 the country, and the same is true of 

 the antelope. They have been driven 

 from their familiar haunts by the de- 

 velopment of agriculture in the west. 

 Among the animals that have been 



