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Canadian Forestry Journal, March, ipi6. 



rights-of-way. Through co-operative 

 action, great headway has been 

 made in securing the reduction of 

 forest losses through fires traceable 

 to railway causes. 



The forests of British Columbia 

 and on Dominion lands in the West 

 have been dealt with in reports con- 

 taining the results of special studies 

 conducted bv Dr. C. D. Howe and 

 Mr. J. H. White. The Trent water- 

 shed" in Ontario, has also received 

 especial attention, in a report of an 

 investigation by Dr. C. D. Howe in 

 the townships of Burleigh and Me- 

 thuen. This district is important in 

 that, while of very little value as an 

 agricultural area, it is being repeat- 

 edly overrun by forest fires and the 

 little remaining merchantable tim- 

 ber destroyed. It is suggested that 

 the area be placed under the control 

 o fthe Dominion Forestry Branch 

 for protection from fires and for re- 

 forestation. 



Because of lack of field supervi- 

 sion, more money is wasted in fire 

 protection to-day than is used econ- 

 omically. Fire wardens are nearly 

 all temporary men, and if one does 

 not give them supervision and train- 

 ing, and does not try to keep the 

 good men from year to year, one 

 cannot get the results desired. In 

 the first fire protection services of 

 Canada, far more wardens were 

 wasting money than were making 

 good use of it. Unless we have good 



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