Canadian Forestry Journah February, ipi6. 



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Motor-Speeder Railway Patrol in the territory of the St. Maurice Forest Protective 



Association, Quebec Province. 



bracing all the timberlands of the 

 St. Maurice Valley and adjoining 

 territory ; to fight and extinguish 

 fires ; to construct look-out stations, 

 telephone lines, trails, &c.. necessary 

 for efficient patrol and the appre- 

 hension of fire ; to prosecute trans- 

 gressors of the fire laws ; and to pro- 

 mote legislative and educational 

 measures advocating the conserva- 

 tion of forest resources. 



On the 20th of March a manager 

 was appointed who submitted a 

 working plan and estimate of cost to 

 the Directors of the Association on 

 the 6th of April and the fire patrols 

 commenced actual operation during 

 the first week of May. 



Thus in the short space of nine 

 weeks an Association comprising 

 16% of the lands under license in 

 the Province was organized and its 

 work started over the entire terri- 

 tory. 



The affairs of the Association are 

 controlled and managed by a Board 

 of Directors, and the funds neces- 

 sary to defray the expenses of the 

 Association are raised by assess- 

 ment which is based on the acreage 

 holdings of the members. 



The Association assumes for its 

 individual members all the obliga- 

 tions of fulfilling the fire protective 

 regulations of the Government. 



It also carries on the fighting of 

 fires occuring on the lands covered 

 by its operations and the expense in- 

 curred in so doing is assessed pro- 

 rata on all the members of the As- 

 sociation in proportion to their 

 acreage holdings. 



07'er 12,000 Square Miles. 



The present area patrolled, exclu- 

 sive of Government lands not under 

 license and settled districts, is 12,- 

 332.46 square miles, or 7,892,776 

 acres. 



This area is divided into six di- 

 visions each in charge of an inspec- 

 tor, these divisions being further 

 sub-divided into thirty-two districts 

 or patrols, seventeen of Avhich are 

 patrolled by men in canoes, seven by 

 men on horseback, three by men on 

 foot, one by man in look-out station, 

 and four railway patrols by men on 

 motor cars. 



During the past season eighteen 

 special rangers were put on the 

 drives and with construction crews. 



