Canddian Foresirij Journal, December, 1917 1453 



National Existence and Forest 1 

 Maintenance ! } 



By Dr. Bernard E. Fernow | 



"When the questions of the extension of suffrage to women, of | 



tariff, of taxation, of coinage and currency, which are all merely in- ! 



cidents, will have sunk into the background, the question of the 1 



economy of the resources which constitute and sustain the political, I 



commercial, and social power of the nation — long neglected — will still j 



claim attention; for only those nations who develop their natural | 



resources economically, and avoid the waste of that which they pro- = 



duce, can maintain their power or even secure the continuance of 1 



their separate existence. A nation may cease to exist as well by the ! 



decay of its resources as by the extinction of its patriotic spirit. While | 



we are debating over the best methods of disposing of our wealth, | 



we gradually lose our very capital without even realizing the fact f 



Whether fertile lands are turned into deserts, forests into waste | 



places, brooks into torrents, rivers changed from means of power and 1 



intercourse into means of destruction and desolation — these are I 



questions which concern the material existence itself of society; I 



and since such changes become often irreversible, the damage j 



irremediable, and at the same time the extent of available resources j 



becomes smaller in proportion to population, their consideration is I 



finally much more important than those other questions of the day." 1 



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White Pine Immune in N, B. 



An interesting meeting was held Crown Land Department. The opin- 



on the 3rd of December at Frederic- ion expressed by those present was 



ton, N.B. when the field staff of the that no White Pine Blister Rust has 



New Brunswick Government Forest yet been discovered in New Briins- 



Service was addressed by Prif. R. wick. Arrangements were made 



B. Miller, Dean of the School of For- whereby the Forest Service will do 



estry, and G. C. Cunningham, in scouting this winter under the direc- 



chacge of the Dominion Government tion of Mr. Cunningham. 

 Plant Pathological laboratory on the 



White Pine Blister Rust, and by J. In regard to the Spruce Bud Moth, 

 H. Tothill, in charge of the Dom- Mr. Tothill states that as a result of 

 inion Government Entomological la- his studies of representative areas for 

 boratory on the Spruce Bud Moth, the past five years in New Bruns- 

 Among those present were Col. T. wick, he is of the opinion that the 

 G. Loggie, Deputy Minister of Lands present outbreak is now on the de- 

 and Mines, A. T. Murchie, Super- cline. The staff of the Forest Ser- 

 intendent of Scalers for New Bruns- vice will also collect data in this re- 

 wick, and W'. E. McMullen of the gard this winter. 



