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earth be levelled sufficiently to permit 

 the proper ranging of the territory. 



4. As far as possible prison labor 

 should be employed in the construc- 

 tion of these roads. 



^ 5. A corps of forest rangers should 

 be employed to patrol this timber area 

 using therein 



(a) Indians. 



(b) Farmers or stock raisers who 

 would be allowed to settle on 

 grazing areas within the reserve. 



(c) Specially trained rangers who 

 should be charged with the duty 



of reforesting. 



6. Allowing fires to escape should 

 be rigidly punished. In this connec- 

 tion the recent Manitoba Act for pre- 

 vention of fires is not at all severe. 



7. The reforesting and reproduc- 

 tion of timber in this area should be 

 set about as patientl^^ and scientifi- 

 cally as is being done in Europe, and 

 the settlers of the Province thorough- 

 ly advised of the purpose and neces- 

 sity and advantage of this being done, 

 so as to secure their cordial co- 

 operation. 



Summer Resorts Aid Forest Protection 



Most of the larger summer resorts 

 of Canada were asked early in June 

 by the Canadian Forestry Association 

 to urge upon their guests by various 

 means greater care with fire in the 

 woods. The response from summer 

 resort managers has been remarkably 

 good and on the menu cards and ad- 

 vertising literature of many hotels 

 can now be seen warnings regarding 

 forest fires. Many most valuable 

 suggestions for the extension of this 

 plan in the summer resort districts 

 were made to the Association but 

 these cannot be carried out at present 

 for lack of means. Some of the 

 mottoes submitted to the hotel man- 

 agers were as follows: — 



"Do not throw away lighted match- 

 es or tobacco in or near the woods. 

 Bush fires spoil the fun for the next 

 man. 



"Most of the damaging fires in the 

 woods are set by human hands. 

 Watch yours. 



"This resort needs the trees. Play 

 careful with your matches and lighted 

 tobacco when walking through the 

 woods. Never leave a camp fire 

 unextinguished. 



"Make this a year of thrift in forest 

 fires. Tnrift starts in the head but 

 works through the finger tips. Care- 

 less finger tips toss away lighted 

 matches and- tobacco. That's how 

 the big fires start. 



"Guests are requested to practice 

 every care in keeping the woods in 



this neighborhood free from fire dam- 

 age. 



"Only the amateur neglects to ex- 

 tinguish his camp fire in the woods.'* 



FIRST SCHOONER OF FLEET 



On another page is an illustration of 

 the motor-driven five-masted schoo- 

 ner "Mabel Brown," launched by the 

 H. W. Brown Company, Ltd., Van- 

 couver, B.C.. who constructed the 

 vessel. The "Mabel Brown" is now 

 on its way to Sydney, Australia, with 

 a cargo of 1,534,000 feet of lumber for 

 the Government of New South Wales. 

 The vessel is built throughout of 

 British Columbia Douglas fir. She 

 took on her load in ten days at the 

 plant of the Victoria Lumber and 

 Manufacturing Company, Limited, 

 Chemainus, B.C., and will occupy 

 about 45 days in reaching Sydney. 

 The freight charges on her cargo 

 amount to $45,000. The "Mabel 

 Brown" is the first of many similar 

 vessels which are now being built in 

 Canada, to take the water. She is 

 equipped with two 160 h.p. engines of 

 the Diesel type. 



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NOTICE 



The Canadian Forestry As- j 

 sociation would be pleased to 

 receive copies of the April, 1915, 

 issue of the Canadian Forestry 

 Journal. These are urgently 

 wanted. 



