CANADIAN FOEESTET ASSOCIATION. 

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her will not be available for twenty or thirty years, and they are relying 

 S^n the te ranger system to protect the grow.ng tree,. Such ^.nvest- 



be sufficient pasturage for the cattle. 



NOVA SCOTIA FOREST SURVEY. 



There is under way a forest survey of the Province. I quote from the 

 Canadian Forestry Journal of last December: 



"The forest survey, or, rather, 'reconnaissance,' of the Province 

 of Nova Scotia was proceeded with during the past summer, and 

 satisfactory progress was made, those counties west of Hants being 

 covered. Dr. Fernow and his four assistants succeeded in covering 

 a total of about 8,500 square miles in this first season of the work, 

 which will take another season to complete. 



"Cost, Object and Methods. The low cost of the survey is a 

 point especially noteworthy, the expenditure per square mile averag- 

 ing less than twenty cents. A high degree of accuracy was not aimed 

 at, the object of the survey being rather to furnish approximately 

 correct information regarding the character, extent, and condition 

 of the Province's reserves. Such information, it must be observed, 

 even though but approximately correct, is vastly more reliable than 

 the haphazard guesses that have up to now been the expression of 

 our knowledge of the extent and value of Canadian woodlands. 



"Five men were engaged in the survey, and each was left largely 

 to himself, a certain territory being assigned him to cover by what- 

 ever means should seem best to him. In making investigation as to 

 the timber, etc., personal inspection of the woodlands was supple- 

 mented by interviews with persons in each locality who knew the 

 condition of certain parcels of timber. Much valuable information 

 was obtained in this way, the lumbermen especially being very gener- 

 ous in giving information. 



"The survey plats of the Crown Lands Department, on the scale 

 of two miles to the inch, were used as the basis of recording the for- 

 est survey. These were found only fairly satisfactory. Owing to 

 the fact that no system of triangulation has been established, difficulty 

 was found in tying new surveys to definitely located points. More- 

 over, the surveyors in the field frequently made mistakes, such as 

 locating the boundaries of a one hundred acre grant of land to en- 

 close an area of eight hundred acres. It was indeed often found 

 difficult to locate Crown lands at all, and much land shown on the 

 maps as the property of the Province did not exist. 



Points Noted. The information gathered was as far as pos- 

 sible plotted on the maps in the field, colored pencils being used: num- 

 bers and letters were used to denote different conditions. From these 



