Canadian Forestry Journal, June, IQ16. 



589 



is the case in an}- line of live stock 

 and concerning which very little is 

 being- used. This product is timber. 

 In no one direction has destruc- 

 tion, due to war, been so great as in 

 forest growth; in no other direction 

 will the work of repairing loss be 

 so slow after the restoration of 

 peace. Live stock, household goods 

 and merchandise can be moved out 

 of the way of an invading armv. 

 forests have to be left to take what- 

 ever war brings in its train. Over 

 large areas in France. Serbia, East 

 Prussia, Austria and Russia hostile 

 armies have already passed; over 

 still larger areas other hostile armies 

 Avill pass ere the war ends. And 

 wherever artillery comes into action 

 in a serious way forests which stand 

 in the line of fire are blasted as bv a 

 cyclone. In addition to the destruc- 

 tion caused by artillerv there have 

 been and will be vast quantities of 

 timber used as supports in the 

 trenches with Avhich a large part of 

 mid-Europe is being seamed. Un- 

 less peace comes soon considerable 

 areas in Continental Europe bid fair 

 to become a treeless land. Even in 

 England forests that have stood for 

 centuries are being sacrificed largelv 

 to meet war demands in construc- 

 tion work. 



Before the war began the world's 

 forest reserves were insufficient for 

 world needs. The shortage will be 

 greater after the war ends and that 

 shortage cannot be made good o\-er 

 night, ^^'recked buildings can be re- 

 placed in a few Aveeks : a new crop 

 of hogs can be matured in a vear; 

 beef can be brought to maturitv in 

 two years. But it'takes a generation 

 to create a merchantable tree. One 

 of the first needs in reconstruction 

 after the war, in so far as this Prov- 

 ince is concerned, will be a well-de- 

 vised forestry policy. Such was 

 needed before the war; it will be still 

 more necessary when the present 

 work of destruction ends. 



Carrying Cost 0/ Timber 



E. T. Allen, forester of the West- 

 ern Forestry and Conservation As- 

 sociation, representing 13.000,000 

 acres of standing timber, presented 

 the case of the timber owners to the 

 Federal Trade Commissioner at 

 ^\'ashington. D. C. on March 14th. 

 ]\Ir. Allen contended that unless 

 conditions improved timber owners 

 would be unwilling to carrv their 

 holdings. He declared that only a 

 general reorganization of the entire 

 industry could save the situation. 

 Elimination of profits of too many 

 middlemen was suggested by Mr. 

 Allen. Timber owners, he contend- 

 ed, have given up all idea of holding 

 timber for speculative purposes. The 

 increased carrying costs are mount- 

 ing faster than stumpage values. Mr. 

 Allen contended that the carrying of 

 raw material for the lumber' indus- 

 try has become a project of such 

 vast magnitude and difficulty that 

 it is a great factor in the situation 

 and must receive equal considera- 

 tion with manufacturing problems. 



From "Canada Lumberman'' 



"The Canadian Forestry Associa- 

 tion hit u])on a very clever means 

 of popularizing the 'work of forest 

 conservation when it decided to pre- 

 sent a Boy Scout Forest Book to 

 each of the sixteen thousand boy 

 scouts in Canada as part of its edu- 

 cational propaganda for forest pro- 

 tection. In the thirty-two pages of 

 text and illustration the boy "is in- 

 troduced to the Canadian forest in a 

 way that is bound to arouse his in- 

 terest therein as a personal and na- 

 tional necessity, and give a new turn 

 to the study of woodcraft that is part 

 of every boy scout's training. The 

 sjund business reasons for putting 

 an end to our annual plague of forest 

 fires are presented in convincing 

 fashion." 



