With the Forest Engineers* 



(Contributed by the Canadian Society of Forest Engineers.) 



Officers for 1914. 



The following officers have been elected 

 by acclamation for 1914:— 



President — Dr. B. E. Fernow. 



Vice-president — R. H. Campbell. 



Secretary-Treasurer — Ellwood Wilson, 

 Grand 'Mere, Que. 



The remaining four members of the 

 executive committee, as decided by the 

 last (1914) annual meeting, consist of the 

 chairmen of the district executives, and 

 will be elected later. 



New Members. 



The Secretary announces the election of 

 the following new members: 



Active— P. Z. Caverhill, D. C. A. Galar- 

 neau, Axel Gold. 



Associate — R. D. Prettie, S. H. Clark, 

 Alan Parlow, G. E. Bothwell, H. R. Christie, 

 F. McVickar, B. M. Winegar, H. Sorgius. 



Student— A. W. Bentley, J. F. L. Hughes. 



New Brunswick Notes. 



When in the Maritime Provinces Mr. 

 James Lawler, the Secretary of the Canadian 

 Forestry Association called on Professor R. 

 B. Miller, in the Forestry Department of 

 the University of New Brunswick at Fred- 

 ericton. He briefly addressed the class and 

 learned some particulars of the work. Pro- 

 fessor Miller has been asked to take over 

 the care of the shade trees of the City of 

 Frederieton in addition to his work at the 

 University. Mr. H. C. Belyea, a graduate 

 of the class of 1911, was at Frederieton to 

 give a two-weeks' course in cruising to the 

 class. The University forest lands, lying 

 immediately behind the college buildings, 

 which comprise several thousand acres, were 

 to be estimated and mapped in this work. 

 The annual 'hammerfest' or dinner of the 

 class was most successful this year. 



A Summer in the Trent Valley, Ont. 



Dr. C. D. Howe, of the University of To- 

 ronto Faculty of Forestry, writes: — 



'My summer was spent with two as- 

 sistants, Messrs. Aiken and Burford, making 

 a detailed survey of limited areas in the 

 Trent valley. The work was confined to the 

 townships of Burleigh and Methuen in Pe- 

 terborough county. Our object was to deter- 

 mine the effect of repeated fires upon the 

 rate of reproduction of the commercial spe- 

 cies, especially upon that of pine. These 

 townships offer excellent opportunities for 

 such study, for they contain areas ranging 



in character from those that have been burn- 

 ed but once down to areas that have been 

 burned a dozen times since lumbering. We 

 ran lines through the old burns of different 

 ages and calipered all the trees above one 

 inch in diameter. As you may imagine, this 

 was slow work where the young trees aver- 

 aged over 3,000 to the acre. On the other 

 hand, it was easy work on the much-burned 

 areas, where sometimes we found only half 

 a dozen small poplars to the acre — this, too, 

 in places where the stumps showed that an 

 average of 25 or more pine trees per acre 

 had been removed. 



' The results of the work have not all been 

 compiled as yet, but I may say in general 

 that I was surprised and gratified with the 

 abundance of young pine on the areas which 

 have been burned only once. It is coming 

 back again in commercial quantities. Such 

 areas will prove a valuable asset to the 

 Province, if they could only be protected 

 from fire. On the other hand, the young 

 pine on areas burned several times is about 

 as scarce as hen's teeth in February.' 



New Regulations in B.C. 



Introducing a novelty in the form of graz- 

 ing regulations is not all fun. Witness the 

 following (written in December last) from 

 the Dominion District Inspector of Forest 

 Reserves at Kamloops, B.C. — 'A meeting of 

 stockmen held recently at Kamloops to con- 

 sider the new grazing regulations of the Do- 

 minion Forestry Branch developed consider- 

 able opposition to these regulations. This 

 opposition, however, when analyzed, is found 

 to arise more from a natural objection to 

 the Government's putting an end to free 

 range than from a fundamental objection 

 to the policy of administration itself. The 

 writer took occasion, while at the Forest 

 Fire Conference at Vancouver, to ask some 

 questions of Mr. Silcox, U. S. District For- 

 ester for District One, where natural condi- 

 tions are the same as at Kamloops. It was 

 ascertained from him that the transition 

 from free grazing to administration and 

 revenue collection by the Government was 

 accompanied by *the same opposition there. 

 Enforcement of the Government's policy, 

 however, showed the stockmen in a very few 

 years that they were much better off than 

 formerly. The writer is convinced that a 

 reasonable test will demonstrate this fact 

 equally favourably to the stockmen in the 

 Kamloops district.' 



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