}g CANADIAN FOBESTBY ASSOCIATION. 



revenue is now in the vincity of $9,000,000, and the net revenue, $4,000,- 

 ooo. There are about 200 officers in the controlling staff conservators, 

 deputy conservators, ,and assistant conservators. About 80 per cent, of 

 these were trained at Cooper's Hill and Oxford. There are some four 

 hundred rangers and twelve hundred deputy rangers or foresters, trained 

 for the most part at the local institution at Dehra Dun. The 8,500 addi- 

 tional guards are largely recruited from the better class of natives. The 

 school at Dehra Dun was founded in 1878, the forests between the Jumna 

 and Ganges being set aside for training purposes. In 1884 the school 

 came under the control of the Imperial Government of India. The pro- 

 gressive policy pursued in India has not been without its influence on the 

 other parts of the Empire, and might well bear further investigation with 

 a view to adaptation to conditions in Canada. 



In the United States the forestry movements have, like our own, been 

 very much dependent upon European initiative. Of recent years, the 

 Federal Government of the United States has been exceedingly active in 

 experimental work and in the publication of many valuable bulletins deal- 

 ing with many aspects of the forestry question. In many ways the Ameri- 

 can research methods manifest an independence of initiative and complete- 

 ness of detail which mark the American school as an exceedingly progres- 

 sive one, but one in no sense independent of European influence. Nearly 

 a score of forestry schools have been established, ranging from the two 

 years' post-graduate work of the larger universities to the short courses 

 for forest rangers in several of the western colleges. 



We have made a very rapid survey of some of the principal aspects 

 of forestry education as carried on in other countries. It will be seen that 

 most of the important educational methods have already been introduced 

 into Canada. These may be classified under the following general divi- 

 sions: i. Movements for the dissemination of general information and 

 for the direction of public sentiment in forestry matters. 2. Institutions 

 for technical discussion and the presentation of the results of research. 

 3. Institutions for the education of young men in the profession of for- 

 estry. 4. Elementary education in the public schools. 



i. In developing public sentiment in Canada much has been done 

 through the instrumentality of the Canadian Forestry Association. The 

 formation of such associations has become a recognized method of stimu- 

 lating public interest in new movements and for the development of pro- 

 gressive ideas. We have seen that, with the exception of Germany, where 

 forestry ideas are already far advanced, every country with a definite forest 

 policy has one or more forestry associations of this general character. 

 The rapid development of the forestry movement in Canada is a tribute to 

 the effectiveness of our general Association. The unity manifested with 

 regard to the different activities of the Association has given it a powerful 

 influence in the promotion of a sound public policy. If one might venture 

 on a bit of mild criticism it would be to the effect that some of our recom- 

 mendations are scarcely definite enough. For example, we are all agreed 

 as to the importance of protection from fire. Could we not, through a 

 committee of expert members of this Association, carry through a system- 

 atic investigation of the forest laws of other countries, as well as those 



