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503 



cussing all sorts of administrative 

 problems but the last meeting was 

 made more general and two Forest 

 Assistants and two of the best rang- 

 ers were added to the attendance. 

 One of the most interesting features 

 of the meeting was a telephone dem- 

 onstration given by Mr. M. E. Deer- 

 ing, of Winnipeg, representing the 

 Northern Electric Company, which 

 was found of exceptional interest. 



The following were in attendance : 

 Mr. Finlayson ; Mr. C. MacFayden, 

 Supervisor Athabasca Forest; J. Y. 

 Greenwood, Acting Supervisor Bow 

 River Forest; S. H. Clark, Super- 

 visor Brazeau Forest; A. E. Austin, 

 Supervisor Clearwater Forest; R. 

 M. Brown, Supervisor Crow's Nest 

 Forest; W. W. Badgely, Supervisor 

 Lesser Slave Forest; Forest Assis- 

 tant Manning of Clearwater Forest; 

 Forest Assistant Macdonald of Bow 

 River Forest; Forest Ranger Blef- 

 gen, Crow's Nest Forest; Ranger 

 Hutchison, Brazeau Forest. 



Disappearing Forests 



Of the dense tropical forests of 

 ffnahogany, cedar and other valuable 

 hard woods that once covered the 

 islands of the Carribean, there are 

 left among the Northern Islands, 

 only Dominica in the Leewards and 

 St. Lucia in the Windwards that 

 have any portions of these forests 

 still standing. In Barbados, Anti- 

 gua, Montserrat, St. Vincent and 

 •Grenadad, the forests have disap- 

 appeared. Trinidad, Jamaica and 

 British Guiana, however, have es- 

 caped denudation, on account of the 

 ■difficulty of reaching the interior 

 since no rail nor waterways exist by 

 which the lumber could be got out. 

 In these colonies although the coast 

 line has been cleared and lumbering 

 operations pushed for a few miles 

 into the back country, a large area 

 of timberland still remains in each 

 colony from which is annually 

 •drawn a considerable "cut." 



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