Canadian Forestry Journal, February^ ipi6. 



395 



increasing" numbers each year for 

 trees, from the Dominion Govern- 

 ment nursery, and the success of the 

 plantations is generally remarkably 

 good. It is understood that a stock 

 of trees is also being grown at this 

 nursery station for the re-planting 

 of the denuded areas of sand lands 

 which occur at places throughout 

 the western prairies and which have 

 recently been almost all included in 

 forest reserves. The value of a stock 

 of timber in the middle of an open 

 prairie country is almost beyond 

 computation. 



"It is a matter for congratulation 



that the Dominion Government has 

 established a division for the investi- 

 gation of Canadian timbers and their 

 uses. The investigations of this di- 

 vision will give information that 

 will make possible developments in 

 industries using wood products 

 which should assist Canada materi- 

 ally in making and retaining her 

 proper place as one of the great 

 wood producing countries of the 

 world. 



The success of the two co-opera- 

 tive forest protective associations in 

 Quebec was, said Mr. AVhitman, a 

 matter of gratification. 



Directors' Report for 1915. 



The work of the Canadian Fores- 

 try Association in 1915 was carried 

 on during the months of January, 

 Februar}-, March and half of April 

 by Mr. Lawler, and during the 

 eight and a half remaining months 

 bv the new Secretary, Mr. Robson 

 Black. 



In the belief that aggressive pub- 

 licity in the cause of forest conser- 

 vation fulfills one of the first objects 

 of the Association, the Secretary be- 

 gan on April 15th a campaign 

 through Canadian newspapers and 

 magazines which gradually extend- 

 ed in scope until at the close of the 

 year most of the publicity measures 

 that can be used in the conservation 

 cause were already in effect or in 

 process of inauguration. The Asso- 

 ciation is now allied with several 

 hundred newspapers and magazines, 

 with picture theatres, Boards of 

 Trade, farmers' clubs, women's in- 

 stitutes, educational institutions, 

 banks, railways and other channels 

 for reaching the general public, and 

 this alliance is in the truest sense a 

 working one. and already found to 

 operate satisfactorily. 



It is particularly worthy of note 

 that wherever the Secretary has ask- 

 ed for an opening for the presenta- 



tion of the claims of forest protec- 

 tion and conservation generally the 

 response has been invariably hearty. 

 This applies with equal truth to edi- 

 tors, educationists, club officials, 

 society organizers, theatre owners, 

 church authorities, etc., in all parts 

 of the country. The campaign con- 

 ducted bv the Association mav have 

 an enormous amount of public ignor- 

 ance and indifference to overcome 

 but it is not additionally handicap- 

 ped by any resentment or wide- 

 spread prejudice. 



A forward move was made on 

 November 1st by the engagement of 

 new and larger offices in the Booth 

 Building and the securing of addi- 

 tional office assistance. These new 

 facilities give the Association an up- 

 to-date equipment which is showing 

 its value in the work from day to 

 day. 



As to the character of the public- 

 ity matter, a few words may be said. 

 Probably two-thirds of the articles 

 and illustrations dealt with the evils 

 of forest fires and traced their dam- 

 age back to the pockets of the indi- 

 vidual reader. Forest fires were 

 made a matter of personal loss in 

 nearly all newspapers and maga- 

 zine material, and wherever possible 



