Canadidu Forc.slrij Journal, October, 1U17 



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A view of the B. C. Provincial Nursery at Essondale. 



The Case For New Brunswick's Forests 



By Robson Black 

 Secretary Canadian Forestry Association 



A Discussion of Present- Day Forest Conditions 

 With Some Suggestions For Provincial Action. 



WERE the whole of the Dominion of Canada inventoried after the 

 manner of a personal estate, we would see five great natural en- 

 dowments set forth in the order of their present day value: — 



AGRICULTURAL LAND 



THE FORESTS 



THE MINES 



THE FISHERIES 



THE WATER POWERS. 

 From lands, forests and fisheries, the industiy of man has taken toll 

 for more than three hundred years. At first content to realize from the land 

 merely the food, clothing and fuel of a family, improved facilities for trade 

 and growth of population gradually reared a more complex commercial 

 machinery until in most parts of the Dominion the raw materials of field and 

 forest, mine and waters, can be sent forth today in a completely manufactured 

 state. The natural resources themselves, however, remain the foundation 

 of practically all human activity. Towns and cities are built upon faith in 

 their inexhaustibility. Transportation lines have been directed into almost 

 every corner of the country to turn these resources to general profit. Export 

 trade with lands less generously endowed has grown to great volume. 



In the days when the geographical bulk of the Dominion — so much of it 

 unexplored and unassessed as to values^ — gave rise to prophecies of fabulous 

 wealth, it was not surprising that the public should be blinded to the possi- 

 bilities of depletion of mines or timberlands. Prognostications of inexhaust- 

 ible resources in Ungava and about Hudson's Bay, in Labrador, and other 

 sections of which accurate information was lacking, created an over-con- 



