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minion are turning their attention 

 towards it and studying the condi- 

 tions thac can be developed to bring 

 it about. The ordinary man looking 

 at such a productive forest may see 

 and appreciate little of me knowl- 

 edge and effort necessary to evolve 

 such a forest, but it demands as 

 high technical qualifications, as 

 thorough knowledge of conditions 

 and as careful calculation and man- 

 agement as do the problems of any 

 other profession. 



Development of the production 

 and, as part of it, the improvement 

 of the condition of the natural re- 

 sources of Canada is the duty of the 

 hour and not less with the forest re- 

 sources, which affect public and 

 domestic economy very vitally, than 



with any other, and a clear appre- 

 ciation by public administrations 

 and private citizens of the possibility 

 and the necessity of such production 

 and the means by which they can 

 co-operate in it is an absolute neces- 

 sity in order to bring it about. 



Timber revenue 'in Canada for 

 fiscal year ending 1913 : 

 Timber and Grazing 



Branch (Dominion) .$ 431,196.60 



Quebec 1,510,171.41 



British Columbia 2,832.788.00 



Ontario 1,979,125.81 



Nova Scotia, (Crown 



Lands Revenue) 18,459.80 



New Brunswick 662,031.00 



Total $7,433,772.62 



Destruction of Scenic Beauties 

 -— ^ — by Forest Fires 



By Arthur O. Wheeler, 

 Director, Alpine Club of Canada. 



The Secretary of the Canadian 

 Forestry Association has asked me 

 to express briefly the attitude of the 

 Alpine Club of Canada towards for- 

 est conservation, and its protection 

 from annual ravages by the fire 

 demon. I am very pleased to do 

 this, for, apart from extremely ur- 

 gent economic reasons for the pres- 

 ervation of the magnificent Canadian 

 forests, as a means of conserving 

 the partially developed and unde- 

 veloped wealth of the country, there 

 is 'much to be said. 



Forest conservation affects prim- 

 arily two of the main sources of 

 Canada's income, viz. : the lumber 

 industry, and the preservation of 

 water supply for use on unforested 

 lands and in the production of trans- 

 mitted power. Of these two useful 



features t h e Canadian Forestry 

 Journal has preached since the be- 

 ginning, and it is apparent that the 

 various governments are, in colla- 

 boration with the Conservation 

 Commission, doing all that is at pre- 

 sent possible to prevent the peren- 

 nial occurrence of the devastating 

 fires that are the curse of timbered 

 districts. Yearly, such action is be- 

 coming more efficient as the value 

 of the timber that remains and the 

 future of the areas that are being 

 reforested by natural or by artificial 

 means are brought home to us. 



Had these values been better ap- 

 preciated in the past and had it been 

 possible to employ the present pre- 

 cautions, Canada would have been 

 wealthy to a much greater degree, 

 and many wide areas would have 



