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1. If any of this is in territory under license, the licensee should either 

 have a full year (from the time the land is applied for) to remove his timber, 

 or should be compensated for it. 



2. Settlers should be required to take up lots next to the last ones alloted 

 and not be allowed to scatter over wide and inaccessible areas. 



3. Settlement conditions should be rigidly and honestly enforced and 

 prompt cancellation made if these are not fulfilled. 



4. Settlers applying for lots should be compelled to prove that they are 

 bona fide colonists and not speculators in timber nor in the employ of such. 



5. They should not be allowed to burn up the wood in clearing their 

 land and should be compelled to leave one-quarter of their land for wood 

 lots. 



C. The fire protection laws should be made easier of enforcement and 

 should be rigidly executed and rangers given the authority to arrest anyone 

 setting fire without first having to notify the Government, as at present. 

 The laws should be so amended that a conviction could be obtained by prov- 

 ing that a fire starting from a camp fire or settlers clearing^ set by him or his 

 employees, without its being necessary to actually see a man light it. Set- 

 tlers' and river drivers' fires constituted nearly 66 per cent, of the fires which 

 occurred last year, and it should only be necessary to prove that a fire started 

 from a settler's land or a driver's camp to obtain a conviction. Last season 

 the Government passed a law making lumbermen responsible for the killing 

 of deer, moose and caribou, out of season, by their employees. The same 

 should be done in the case of forest fires. 



A force of competent and reliable rangers should be established and be in 

 the woods constantly to enforce the Government stumpage and waste regula- 

 tions. These should be amended so as to compel the licensees to take out all 

 sound, dead and down timber, and all fire-killed trees to six inches on the 

 stump ; to make them cut and utilize all mature trees ; and to make them 

 remove all wood in a tree down to a diameter of four inches, at the top. The 

 enforcement of such measures would materially reduce the waste, and greatly 

 diminish the size of the upstanding tops which so largely increase the danger 

 from fire and difficulty of fighting it. 



Taking the tree further into the tops would be a great help in fighting 

 fire, because the sooner it rots the less danger there is of the wood catching 

 fire, and it would be a great deal easier to fight a fire once it was started. 



THE CHAIRMAN : (Past-President Price) : I wish to say a word on Mr. 

 Kiordan's paper. He says the exportation of the pulp* wood has been largely 

 responsible for the destruction because it has offered the principal market 

 for the timber felled. Well, everyone has a right to his own opinion. My 

 idea is that if we put on a prohibitive duty, prohibit the export of pulp 



