Canadian Forestry Journal, July, 191i 



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Messrs. E. G. lIcDougall, C. S. Cowan and L. 

 R. Andrews, of the British Columbia Fores: Ser- 

 vice, have enlisted. 



Mr. Ellwond Wilson, Chief Forester of the 

 Laurentide Company, has been elected a member 

 of the Society of American Foresters. 



Mr. G. C. Piche, Chief Forester of Quebec, has 

 planted a thousand trees on his estate at Bur- 

 rill's Siding. 



Mr. W. J. Boyd formerly of the staff of the 

 District Inspector of Forest Reserves, Calgary, 

 has enlisted in the Third University Company, 

 Montreal. 



Mr. T. W. Dwight, Assistant to the D'rector 

 of Forestry, Ottawa, has returned from an inspec- 

 tion trip through the West. 



Mr. R. H. Campbell, Director of Forestry, left 

 Ottawa on July 15th for his annual inspection 

 trip covering the Forest Reserves and much of 

 the outlying territory now patrolled by rangers 

 of the Forestrv Branch. 



Mr. R. K. Shives, a forestry student lately in 

 the employ of the New Brunswick Railway Com- 

 pany under Mr. R. R. Bradley, has joined the 

 aviation corps training at Toronto. 



The number of forest guards already appointed 

 in British Columbia and assigned to fire service 

 amounts to about 1.50 in addition to the per- 

 manent staff of 38 rangers. As the season ad- 

 vances it is expected that thirty more guards and 

 probably fifty or sixty patrolmen will be added. 



The nursery work and p'antations of the Lau- 

 rentide Company at Grand Mere, P.Q., were visit- 

 ed by Mr. G. A. Gutches, head of the New York 

 State Ranger School at Wanakena. It is the 

 intention of the Laurentide Company to conduct 

 experiments in the disposal of logging debris by 

 burning along the lines advocated bv Mr. Gutches. 



Mr. H. R. Christie, Assistant Chief of Opera- 

 tion, British Collumbia Forest Service, is making 

 an extended trip of inspection in the northern 

 forest districts conferring with District Fores- 

 ters Murray, Bonney, Marvin, Allen and Irwin. 

 He reports that while there was a short spring 

 fire season heavy rains have made the north coun- 

 try safe for the present. 



A MESSAGE FROM AFRICA. 



In a letter just received by an 

 Ottawa friend from ]Mr. A. E. 

 Gower. District Forest Officer of 

 the Union of South Africa, sta- 

 tioned at Fort Cunynghame, 

 Toise River, the following para- 

 graph appears: 



"The 'vim' that is apparent 

 in your Dominion in all matters 

 pertaining to Forestry, protec- 

 tive and utilitarian, is much ap- 

 preciated by other forest officers 

 far removed from the centres we 

 read of, and one can but hope 

 that South Africa will, at a not 

 too distant date also have her 

 illustrated journal." 



EXCHAXGE CUT-OVER LAXD.S. 



A plan has been suggested by 

 Elmer Cox, of the ^ladera Lumber 

 Co.. San Francisco, regarding an ex- 

 change of cut-over private lands for 

 timber located within the National 

 Forests. ]\lr. Cox believes that it 

 would be practical for a bill to be 

 enacted which would allow private 

 holders to make application to the 

 Government for an exchange of cut- 

 over lands based upon their avail- 

 ability for reforestation. If a mutual- 

 ly satisfactory basis of exchange 

 could be reached, the Government 

 would impose such regulations in re- 

 gard to private cutting as now ob- 

 tains in the National Forests, to in- 

 sure satisfactory reforestation as a 

 pre-requisite of the exchange. 



