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Canadian Forestrp journal 



Vol. XI. 



September, 1915. 



(Published at Kingston, Ont.) 



No. 9. 



GUARDING THE LOWER OTTAWA 



The organizing of limit holders 

 into mutual fire protective associa- 

 tions has had about four years of 

 rigid testing in Canada. The good 

 results have been so convincing that 

 new associations in all the forest 

 provinces must sooner or later come 

 into existence. With a few excep- 

 tions the members of the St. 

 Maurice and the Lower Ottawa as- 

 sociatipns in Quebec, each embrac- 

 ing about 12,000 square miles, are 

 committed permanently to the idea 

 of forest protection by co-operative 

 effort as against any other system. 

 The objects of efficiency and econ- 

 omy are attained in a degree quite 



impossible where politics or other 

 fettering influences are present. 



Recently the Secretary of the 

 Canadian Forestry Association, in 

 company with Mr. Clyde Leavitt, 

 Forester of the Commission of Con- 

 servation, and Mr. Arthur H. Gra- 

 ham, Manager of the Lower Ottawa 

 Forest Protective Association, was 

 privileged to pay a visit to Devil's 

 Mountain which overlooks a radius 

 of thirty to forty miles of the Ga- 

 tineau and Lievre watersheds. 

 Devil's Mountain forms a pivotal 

 point of the Association's operations 

 in that area. Upon its summit, the 

 highest for at least a hundred miles 



The cabin of the lookout man, on Devil's Mountain, showing 

 Manager Graham and three of his staff. 



