Directors' Report for 1913. 



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teetion, besi.les what was spent by timber 

 licensees. The question of leases, all of 

 which were timed to expire in 19 IS, was set- 

 tled (luring the year by new leases running 

 for twenty and thirty years with renewal 

 privileges. 



In Nova Scotia about $S,000 per annum 

 is spent collectively through the municipali- 

 ties by the timber licensees on protection, 

 in addition to which the Province pays the 

 salary of the Chief Fire Warden. Araonnts 

 spent by individuals and corporations in 

 lii,'liting fires on their limits this season 

 have been much larger. A more complete 

 organization is in contemplation by the Pro- 

 vincial Government. 



Progress is noted in protection by private 

 individuals and corporations throughout the 

 Dominion. The locomotives on 587 miles of 

 railway have been changed from coal-burn- 

 ers to oil-burners. These lines are in the 

 Rocky Mountains and on Vancouver Island, 

 and are as follows: Canadian Pacific Rail- 

 way, 338; Esquimault and Xanaimo Rail- 

 way, 134: Great Xorthern Railway, 115. 

 The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway "is also 

 about to introduce oil-burners on its Rocky 

 Mountain lines. The Canadian Xorthern 

 Railway has established a department 

 solely devoted to fire protection work, 

 and expects to develop this in the coming 

 year. All the railways have made pro- 

 vision by appointing special officers to 

 carry out the orders of the Canadian Board 

 of Railway Commissioners and to co-operate 

 with the officers of that body and of the 

 federal and provincial forest departments. 



The lumber and pulp companies are cut- 



ting timber with less waste than over be- 

 fore; a number of them are having their 

 holdings surveyed and estimated by forest 

 engineers, and some are beginning to experi- 

 ment in thinning and replanting. 



The use of woo.l preserving methods is 

 rapidly increasing, there being several large 

 plants in Canada for the treatment of rail- 

 way ties, which will check the rapidity of 

 the increase of this drain on the forests. 



The educational side is being well looked 

 after by three forest schools located at To- 

 ronto, Quebec and Fredericton. 



These schools will bo able to supplv the 

 limited number of highly traine.l technical 

 men, required as forest administrations 

 grow, without overcrowding the profession. 

 A development of lower grade schools, how- 

 ever, designe.l to educate forest rangers and 

 woods superintendents is now most needed. 



The greatest need, viewed from the stand- 

 point of a propagandist organization like 

 ours, is the increase of the bo.ly of public 

 opinion informed on this question. With 

 this secured, the hands of all forest ad- 

 ministrators will be strengthened, the effort 

 to secure the extension of civil service regu- 

 lations to the outside service will be render- 

 ed easier, and all forest extractive industries 

 will be placed on a more permanent basis. 

 Though much remains to be done, still much 

 has been accomplished since this Associa- 

 tion was formed in the year 1900, and your 

 Directors urge upon all members the making 

 of greater efforts, both individual an.l as 

 an Association, to further this patriotic 

 work which means so much to every citizen 

 of the Dominion. 



Constitution and By-Laws. 



As Revised at the 



I. NAME. 

 The name of the Association shall be: 

 The Canadian Forestry Association. 



IT. OBJECT. 

 Its objects shall be: — 



(1) To advocate and encourage judicious 

 methods in dealing with our forests and 

 woodlands. 



(2) To awaken public interest to the sad 

 results attending the wholesale destruction 

 of forests (as shown by the experience of 

 older countries) in the deterioration of the 

 climate, diminution of fertility, drying up 

 of rivers and streams, etc., etc. 



(3) To consider and recommend the ex- 

 ploration, as far as practicable, of our 

 public domain and its division into agri- 

 cultural, timber and mineral lands, with a 

 ^-iew of directing immigration and the pur- 



1914 Amiual Meeting. 



suits of our pioneers into channels best 

 suited to advance their interests and the 

 public welfare. With this accomplished, a 

 portion of the unappropriated lands of the 

 country couM be permanently reserved for 

 the growth of timber. 



(4) To encourage afforestation wherever 

 advisable, and to j)romote forest tree- 

 planting, especially in the treeless areas of 

 our north-western jirairies, upon farm 

 lands where the projiortion of woodland is 

 too low, and ujion highways and in the 

 parks of our villages, towns and cities. 



(5) To collect and <lisseminate, for the 

 benefit of the public, rejtorts and informa- 

 tion bearing on the forestry problem in 

 general, and especially with respect both 

 to the wooded and prairie districts of 

 Canada, and to teach the rising generation 

 the value of the forest with a view of en- 



