Canadian Forestrp 3ournal 



Vol. XI, 



Ottawa, Canada, August, 1915. 



No. 8 



Plantation of White Pine and Scotch Pine made in 1911, by the provincial forest 

 service, on the sand dunes near Lachute, P.Q. This work will stop the shifting of 

 the sand by wind and the consequent destruction of valuable farming lands through 

 being covered with sand. 



Putting Useless Land To Work 



How the Quebec Government is Planting Up ^the'Lachute Sand 



Plains — A Visit to Berthierville. 



Wherever the question of refores- 

 tation is discussed, the experiments 

 conducted by the Quebec Govern- 

 ment at Lachute are invariably a 

 subject of deep interest. Recently 

 the editor of the Forestry Journal 

 was given an opportunity of visiting 

 the Lachute plantations in company 

 with Mr. G. C. Piche, Chief of the 

 Forest Service of Quebec Province, 

 Mr. Clyde Leavitt, Forester to the 



Commission of Conservation, Mr. 

 Ellwood Wilson, Superintendent of 

 the forestry division of the Lauren- 

 tide Company, and Mr. Henry Sor- 

 gius, Manager of the St. Maurice 

 Valley Forest Protective Associa- 

 tion. No argument is needed to 

 prove the practical success of the 

 plantations. The results are in 

 plain sight. Every year of its opera- 

 tion will more and more justify the 



