60 Forests and Trees 



forestry has been followed as a progressive science will 

 help here. The preservation of the European forests and 

 the development and continuance of forests in India are 

 the world's best examples of scientific forestry. The plan 

 followed consists in having certain suitable territories set 

 aside as national forest reserves. The details of admin- 

 istration of the reserves vary greatly with varying con- 

 ditions, but the principle of national forests reserved for 

 that purpose obtains wherever forest preservation has been 

 seriously attempted. This, too, is the plan that is being 

 followed in Canada. Most of the provinces that control 

 their timber lands have made a start in this direction, and 

 the Dominion has set apart reserves in the prairie provinces 

 and in the railway belt of British Columbia. The Dominion 

 forest reserves at present either completely or incompletely 

 organized are as follows. 



MANITOBA AREA 



Porcupine Forest Reserve No. i 777! square miles 



Turtle Mountain Forest Reserve 109 square miles 



Spruce Woods Forest Reserve 224 square miles 



Riding Mountain Forest Reserve i>499 square miles 



Duck Mountain Forest Reserve No. i . . . 1,462 square miles 



South Manitoba Fire Ranging District . .' . 26,900 square miles 



North Manitoba Fire Ranging District . . . 27,000 square miles 



The Pas Fire Ranging District 6,500 square miles 



SASKATCHEWAN AREA 



Cypress Hills Forest Reserve No. 2 .... 97 square miles 



Moose Mountain Forest Reserve . . ... 156 square miles 



Beaver Hills Forest Reserve . . . . * , 99 square miles 



Porcupine Forest Reserve No. 2 ..... 3,247 square miles 



Pasquia Forest Reserve 2*615 square miles 



Fort a la Corne Forest Reserve ' 513 square miles 



