Canadian Forestry Journal, April, ipi6. 



501 



Destroying Shade Trees 



(Ottawa Citizen) 

 Complaints are being made to the 

 civic authorities of the vandaUsrn of 

 local companies whose extensions 

 of wires necessitate the removal, in 

 whole or in part, of trees on civic 

 property. It is alleged that trees on 

 residential streets are being virtually 

 destroyed in many cases by wire 

 stringing crews and that when pro- 

 tests are made the answer usually 

 given is that civic permission for 

 the removal or mutilation of the 

 trees has been secured. The city 

 engineer's department, however, de- 

 nies that such permission has been 

 obtained unless the work is done 

 under the supervision of a represen- 

 tative of the department. 



Trees on civic property (on the 

 street) are the property of the cor- 

 poration. No private company or 

 individual has the right to interfere 

 with them unless by special permit 

 from the engineer's department and 

 under the supervision of an official 

 from that department. It cannot be 

 too strongly impressed upon house- 

 holders and others that e\ery muti- 

 lation of trees under other circum- 

 stances is a violation of the civic 

 regulations, and the perpetrators 

 thereof are liable to the penalties 

 prescribed for such offences. 



The matter is one that concerns 

 the health, comfort and beauty of 

 the community. The remedy for the 

 present epidemic of tree mutilation 

 is in the hands of the citizens and 

 it is to be hoped that it will be 

 promptly applied whenever neces- 

 sary. The city is prepared to deal 

 with all such cases and unless the 

 regulations are promptly and per- 

 manently complied with by the com- 

 panies responsible for recent infrac- 

 tions legal action would appear to 

 be alike desirable and necessarv. 



"The Canadian Forestry Associa- 

 tion are to be complimented and 

 praised for the admirable little "Boy 

 Scout's Forest Book." just produced 

 for presentation to the sixteen thou- 

 sand members of the Boy Scout or- 

 ganization in Canada. The objec- 

 tive, of course, is to get the boy 

 scout interested in the highly impor- 

 tant task of preserving our forest 

 resources from destruction, and this 

 lias been done in a skilful way. By 

 means of numerous interesting illus- 

 trations and a letterpress by Robson 

 Black, which is as good as a story, 

 the boys of Canada will undoubtedly 

 be attracted and inspired to do their 

 share for the preservation of the 

 forests. The booklet is distributed 

 free bv the Association." 



Will Reach the Bo^s 



(From "Industrial Canada," organ 

 of the Canadian ^Manufacturers As- 

 sociation) : 



Settlers' Fires 



Discussing editorially a lecture 

 given recently by the Secretary of 

 the Association in Cobalt before the 

 Canadian Clubs of Temiskaming, 

 the Cobalt Nugget, which circulates 

 largely in the Claybelt section of 

 Ontario, wholly approves of better 

 Government control of forest pro- 

 tection on non-agricultural lands. 

 Says this paper: 



"Although it is humiliating to ac- 

 knowledge the offence. Canada is 

 the greatest forest destroyer of the 

 world. Statistics of no other coun- 

 trv will show the enormous losses of 

 standing timber due to forest fires 

 than official figures of Canada re- 

 veal. And the majority of the fires 

 which are responsible for a big 

 monetary loss to this country every 

 vear are caused by lack of care by 

 the settler in setting out fires to 

 burn up his slack in the process of 

 clearing the land. 



The aims of the Association are 

 commendable. The society does not 

 desire to keep under forest the land 

 that is specially suited to agricul- 

 ture. The objective of the members 

 of the body is to introduce Govern- 

 ment inspection and supervision of 

 the system of fire ranging in every 



