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Canadian Forestry Journal, August, ipij- 



GUARDING THE' 

 FORESTS IN 

 CANADA'S 

 NORTHLAND. 



A fire patrol boat on the Athabasca River, 

 which renders excellent service. 



Railway fire ranger following up a G.T.P. 

 passenger train so as to detect incipient 

 fires along the right of way. 



Restoring South Africa's Forests 



Ravages of Axe and Fire Have Left the Present Generation a 



Meagre Inheritance. 



(Contributed to the "Camdian Forestry Journal") 



Editor-. No,..-.,«e,e=, i„ Sou.h A«c.„ P™"'™ f-^-^^'^.^Z^'Tn'^lt^Vit 



when forest slaughter has been the custom of generations. 



South Africa is comparatively a 

 poorly timbered country and al- 

 though fairly considerable areas of 

 forest or scrub are known to have 

 disappeared before the axe and fire 

 within the last century or two, there 

 appears to be no reason to think that 

 it was ever, as a whole, a heavily 

 timbered country during the present 

 geological period. 



There seems no ground for sup- 



posing that eVen scrub forests were 

 found on the High Veld or Karoid 

 Veld of the interior, while the same 

 applies to a large part of the moun- 

 tain slopes and the country between 

 the mountains and the seas. 



Roughly speaking the forests ot 

 this country may be classed as 

 "dense timber forests" and scrub 

 forests," and the latter form by far 

 the greater proportion. They cover 



