Canadian Forestry Journal, October, iQ^d- 



213 



REINDEER EXPERIMENTS 



According to the annual report of 

 the Dominion Forestry Director, 

 the herd of fifty reindeer purchased 

 by the Government from Dr. Gren- 

 fell has now been reduced to four 

 animals, all females, and it is pro- 

 posed to try and cross these with 

 the native caribou. The great diffi- 

 culty has been with the bulldog 

 flies in the summer. These attack 

 the deer and irritate them to such an 

 extent that they break out of their 

 corral and scatter into the bush. 

 The herds of wood bison, on the 

 other hand, seem to be increasing 

 and now number probably five hund- 

 red head. They are well protected 

 and should increase rapidly. 



COSTS OP BRUSH PILING. 



In the Forest Reserves in Saskat- 

 chewan the Government has re- 

 quired brush piling and burning on 

 all timber sales, and while there was 

 a little opposition at first, this was 

 soon overcome and now it is a regu- 

 lar procedure. Mr. Gutches, lately 

 in charge of this work, gives the 

 following figures of costs : With 

 wages at 25 cents per hour the aver- 

 age cost per acre was $1.00, average 

 cost per cord five cents, average cost 

 per thousand feet board measure ten 

 cents. On another operation, where 

 16,178 ties were made but the lop- 

 ping was not done till after all the 

 ties had been removed, the cost for 

 lopping and burning was one cent 

 per tie or 31 cents per thousand feet. 

 This cost would have been much 

 less had the lopping and burning 



been done at the time of cutting. 

 Brush burning should certainly be 

 made a routine part of every log- 

 ging operation. 



A PROGRESSIVE STEP. 



Mr. J. R. Booth, of Ottawa, has 

 caused the piling, ready for burning 

 at a safe time, of inflammable debris 

 on a narrow strip of his limits 

 parallel to a portion of the Canadian 

 Northern Ontario railway, east of 

 North Bay. This progressive action 

 in connection with forest fire pre- 

 vention will materially reduce the 

 fire hazard to valuable timber lands 

 in the vicinity. Similar action by 

 other limit-holders would undoubt- 

 edly be a paying investment. 



Some of the government fire-pro- 

 tective agencies have given attention 

 to the general situation caused by 

 the accumulation of logging debris 

 in proximity to railway lines. The 

 Forest Act of British Columbia pro- 

 vides that the Provincial Forest 

 board may declare inflammable mat- 

 erial which endangers life or pro- 

 perty a public nuisance, and may 

 order its removal. 



In Quebec, the provincial govern- 

 ment has under consideration the 

 issuance of an order-in-council re- 

 quiring the holders of licenses on 

 crown lands to dispose of inflam- 

 mable debris on a strip one hundred 

 feet wide, adjacent to railway rights- 

 of-way. Such action will well ac- 

 cord with the progressive attitudes 

 of the Quebec government toward 

 the conservation of its forest re- 

 sources. 



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