Canadian Foreslri/ Journal, November, 1917 



1389 



Hauling Out Logs on a New Brunswick Timber Limit 



Nova Scotia's Forest Position 



By F. C. Whitman 



Annapolis Royal, Formerly President, Canadian Forestry Assoc. 



Deteriorating Source of Wood Supplies Runs 

 Up Production of Fishing and Farming Costs. 



In the early "nineties" and up to 

 1904 the forest fire laws were not 

 enforced in Nova Scotia, and during 

 this time Nova Scotia experienced 

 very disastrous forest fires, than in a 

 single County swept over 40,000 

 acres. Fires in the Province scorched 

 thousands of acres of woodland and 

 its effect is plainly marked to-day. 

 It will take years for this land to 

 come back again to a producing con- 

 dition. I am pleased to say that it is 

 coming back and what was a short 

 time ago a blackened territory is 

 now green again with the natural 

 production of forest trees. In the 

 County mentioned reckoning the 40,- 



000 acres at the low estimate of 500 

 feet of lumber to the acre, it means a 

 loss of twenty millions of feet that 

 would have cut a million feet annually 

 and have made a distribution of ten 

 thousand dollars a year in wages. 

 It will take forty years at the very 

 least before this burnt over land can 

 be expected to give a reasonable cut 

 of wood. 



These fires awakened the public 

 to the necessity of putting the fire 

 laws in force, and the Government 

 on being urged, passed an Act in 1904 

 for the Protection of Woods Against 

 Fires, and with amendments this Act 

 is now in force in most of the Coun- 



