CaiHulidn Forcslii/ Journal, Scplirnhrr, 1917 



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rangers in the north was shown with 

 complete fire fighting equipment and 

 outfit used by them. A hirge blaciv 

 bear loaned by the soldiers at the 

 Armory was chained at the edge of 

 the forest and attracted much atten- 

 tion by his antics. 



At the rear of the forest with a 

 path leading up to it a further ex- 

 hibit was arranged in one of the 

 buildings. This building was dec- 

 orated with elk, deer and game heads, 

 bunting and flags as well as num- 

 erous mounted birds and a large 

 white-fish loaned by Mr. Geo. Mc- 

 Donald, Fisheries Inspector. 



On the walls were arranged maps 

 and mounted photographs showing 

 the reserve activities and views of 

 merchantable and young stands, 

 planting and logging operations, brush 

 piling and burning, forest fires and 

 their results, effects of drifting sands. 

 Forest Reserve improvements, graz- 

 ing and uses. Outfits used by both 

 forest and fire rangers for fighting 

 fire were displayed from grub hoes 

 to water alforjas. On two long tables 

 were arranged for free distribution 

 literature, bulletins, reports, blotters, 

 rulers, pocket whetstones and other 

 publicity material. 



Two stalls were occupied by equip- 

 ment and pictures showing railway 

 fire protection. A small hand jigger 

 used by railway patrolmen and a 

 gasolene car used by inspectors were 

 shown with their equipment. Samples 

 of Saskatchewan Forest Products and 

 a model house of White Spruce were 



loaned by the I^rince Albert Lumber 

 Co. 



The exhibit was arranged under 

 the direction of Mr. G. A. Gutches, 

 District Inspector of Forest Reserves 

 lor Saskatchewan and with the assist- 

 ance of Chief Fire Ranger S. W. 

 Thompson, Divisional Fire Inspector 

 T. MacNaughton and Ranger In 

 Charge A. Williscraft. 



THE CRIME OF A MATCH! 



"The greatest crime that can be 

 committed through the agency of a 

 match is the lighting of a destructive 

 forest fire. Consider the case of 

 a building destroyed by fire. Money 

 will replace it. In a year or two we 

 may see another building rise on the 

 same site, easily a better building 

 than the one consumed. Then con- 

 sider the destruction of a forest by 

 fire. A flaming match, or a lighted 

 cigar or cigarette stub, carelessly 

 tossed among the dry leaves starts 

 the conflagration, which sweeps up a 

 hillside, leaving a bare and blackened 

 ruin hundreds of acres in extent. 

 Money cannot replace! it Time may 

 restore this forest to some measure 

 of its former grandeur and value, 

 but scarcely in the life time of a man. 

 Consider this burned area ten years 

 after — or even twenty years — a mass 

 of brush and brambles, with the 

 gaunt and weathered trunks of many 

 fire-killed monarchs still standing in 

 disfiguring array." — Kennebec Valley 

 Forest Protective Association. 



FRANCE'S REGARD FOR HER FORESTS 



"It is evident that France cannot supply her own requirements 

 in wood. The policy adopted throughout France for the conservation 

 of her forests, to cultivate them and to cut only as much as can be 

 produced each year, necessitates the purchase elsewhere of the wood 

 she needs for building purposes, etc. A change in this policy would 

 bring about a revolution in France, where whole districts (communes) 

 pay their taxes from the annual revenue from their forests, and in 

 some cases even distribute a considerable surplus among the in- 

 habitants." — From report of Dominions Royal Commission. 



