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Canadian Forestry Journal, May, 1015. 



Tliiy pliotograph shows what can be done on the 'treeless plains' if man will only give 

 nature a chance. The picture was taken in Assiniboian Park, Winnipeg, which 

 was set aside as a park only about five years ago. Some natural timber was grow- 

 ing in sections of it, but tree planting was successful in developing the area into 

 a tine public playground. 



If you know these Facts, tell your Neighbor ! 



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The forest products of Canada are worth 

 172 million dollars everv vear. 



Xo other crop compares with it in value. 

 The wheat production is worth 50 million 

 dollars a year less. 



Yet the continuance and development of 

 this enormous harvest of trees does not con- 

 flict in any sense with the enlarging of the 

 wheat or any other agricultural crop. On 

 the contrary, the preservation of the forests 

 is the best guarantee of the fertility of the 

 Canadian farm. 



Forest Conservation has no quarrei with 

 the reasonable and patriotic lumberman. 

 Correct methods of forest management 

 maintain and increase both the productive- 

 ness and the capital value of forest land 

 an i draw from it the best return it is capa- 

 ble of giving. 



Forest Conservation does not mean a 

 ' ' Hands Off ' ' sign on every area of trees. 

 It means Care as opposed to Carelessness, 

 Construction as opposed to Destruction, 

 Good Use as opposed to Abuse. The Con- 

 servationist is not a faddist. He believes 

 in cutting crops of trees with an eye to 

 future as well as present profit. He does 

 not look on a forest as a silver mine, to 

 be gouge:, out as fast as possible and aban- 

 doned as a waste. 



The Federal and Provincial Governments 

 of Canada oivn 99 per cent, of the forest 

 lands. A very considerable part of these 

 lands are under lease, but the owners-hip 

 remains vested in the people. The situation 

 in the United States is a remarkable con- 

 trast. There, the people possess a title to 

 not more than one-fifth of their magnificent 

 timber resources. Whatever policy of forest 

 conservation the Canadian people choose to 

 adopt will blanket 99 per cent of the forest 

 aiea of the country. 



Y'onr neighbor might like to know truths 

 like these. 



