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Canadian Forestry Journal, May, ipi6. 

 The Part You Should Plav! 



If the prairie provinces are going to have the timber that they will 

 require in the future for the buildings of the towns and villages and for the 

 supplying of wood using industries, it is necessary to begin considering 

 immediately where the supply is to come from and where it is to be located. 

 If there is no local supply of lumber there will be nothing to regulate the 

 cost and almost any price may be charged by the importer. The time to 

 make sure that the future prices and supply of lumber will be kept under 

 control is now. A crop of trees cannot be grown in one year like a crop of 

 wheat, and it is necessar}- to decide a long time ahead what particular piece 

 of land is going to be kept for producing timber. Fortunately timber will 

 grow where nothing else will and the decision as to the lands on which the 

 timber crops should be grown should be easy if it is once realized that the 

 timber crop is essential and that a fair proportion of the land must be used 

 for that purpose. 



Photo by J. C. B. 



Scores of islands and points are covered with spruce pulpwood. There is evi- 

 dence that formerly much greater areas were similarly covered. ..A great fire some 

 fifty years ago swept away the forest. The land, composed of rocks, is now covered 

 by a growth inferior. Taken at Little Shell Lake, Churchill River Basin. 



Your Decision — Then Your Action. 



The thing to do is to decide nozi' and set apart the lands required for grozi'- 

 ing timber, and to provide for protection, good management and reforesta- 

 tion where necessary. For proper protection of the valuable public pro- 

 perty in forests men who are well qualified and reliable should be selected 

 and the inefficency and carelessness of officials should not be allowed to 

 waste the public wealth. 



If you conclude that as a business matter this is one well deserving of 

 your attention in the interests of the present and the future of the com- 

 munit}^ you can best assure the carrying out of such a policy by laying your 

 views before the authorities which are concerned with forest administra- 

 tion or before the representatives for your district. 



