58 Forests and Trees 



assures central control. All the provinces that control 

 their own crown lands now have departments for their 

 administration, while the Forestry Branch of the Depart- 

 ment of the Interior has been formed to protect the forests 

 of the prairie provinces. The Dominion Forestry Branch 

 is a branch of the Department of the Interior with head 

 office at Ottawa, and supervises the complete work in the 

 western provinces through the Director of Forestry. It 

 has supervision only of the areas set apart for Dominion 

 forests in the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, 

 Alberta, the " Railway Belt" in British Columbia, the Peace 

 River Block in northeastern British Columbia and the 

 Northwest Territories. It also supervises the protection of 

 forested areas of Dominion lands in these provinces which 

 are organized into what are called fire-ranging districts. 



The forest reserves and fire-ranging districts are organized 

 according to provinces, each supervised by a district in- 

 spector of forest reserves. There are four of these in- 

 spectors, with offices in Winnipeg, Prince Albert, Calgary 

 and Kamloops respectively. The district inspector has 

 complete supervision, subject to the head office at Ottawa, 

 of the forestry organizations in his province. His work 

 is divided into three main parts, administration of the 

 area permanently set aside as Dominion forests, super- 

 vision of the forest protection organized in connection with 

 each fire-ranging district, and oversight of the fire pro- 

 tection organized along the railway rights-of-way, along 

 with the chief forester of the Board of Railway Com- 

 missioners. 



