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Canadian Forestry Journal, October, 1917 



Improper and Proper Methods of Attaching Wire Fence to Trees. 



ber mill and camp of A. G. Lambert 

 & Co., a Nelson concern, and the 

 plant of the Christensen Lumber 

 Co., both near Nelson, were burned, 

 with a loss of about $25,000, and at 

 Salmo the Kootenay Shingle Co. 

 lost its whole plant and office build- 

 ings. While a large number of fires 

 have been reported to the depart- 

 ment from various parts of the prov- 

 ince, the damage outside that just 

 mentioned has not been great. The 

 timber damage has not yet been 

 computed. 



Loss to Young drowth 



"The severe fires in southern Brit- 

 ish Columbia late in July destroyed 

 large quantities of young forest 

 growth which had established itself 

 on lands previously burned over, 

 in addition to considerable areas of 

 merchantable timber," writes Mr. 

 Clyde Leavitt in "Conservation." 

 A portion of the young forest so 



destroyed was upon the area included 

 in the great Fernie fire of 1908. In- 

 vestigations made by the Commis- 

 sion of Conservation show that the 

 damage done by repeated forest fires 

 on a specific area is much greater 

 than is generally realized. Such fires 

 not only destroy the young growth, 

 but the seed trees as well, thus pre- 

 venting or greatly retarding the es- 

 tablishment of a stand of commercial 

 species. On this account, in many 

 sections, reproduction of valuable 

 species is wholly inadequate, or is 

 entirely lacking; each successive fire 

 diminishes the earning capacity of 

 the area, from the point of view of 

 timber production. 



During the past 50 years, forest 

 fires in British Columbia have de- 

 stroyed an amount of timber approxi- 

 mately twice as great as that now 

 standing in the province, or ap- 

 proximately equivalent to the total 

 stand of saw timber in the entire 

 Dominion. 



