Canadian Forestry Journal, June, igi6. 



591 



areas supplies the reason why all 

 who have standing timber exposed 

 to risk or who have the more remote 

 interest of a lumber yard or a furni- 

 ture factory should get acquainted 

 with and stand behind any organ- 

 ized Canadian ettort to fight forest 

 fires by education. The goodwill of 

 an informed public is worth all the 

 forest laws ever written. 



"This is not conjecture," said the 

 National Conservation Congress at 



Washington, D. C. 



'Progress dif- 



fers locally almost exactly with the 

 degree in which propaganda has 

 been successful." 



The limit-holders of the Western 

 States agree to such a pronounce- 

 ment ; thev back it up to the tune of 

 from $200,000 to $300,000 a year. 

 There is not more than a trifling 

 fraction of such an amount spent on 

 educative work by the lumbermen 

 of Canada, outside of the two co- 

 operative associations in Quebec, 

 but the plentiful indications of an 

 awakening to the needs of the situa- 

 tion are most encouraging. 



JJ^ork Gets Its Reivard. 



The work of bringing the masses 

 of the Canadian people into intimate 

 touch with the forests and forest in- 

 dustries of the country is mainly in 

 the hands of the Canadian Forestry 

 Association. Without anv govern- 

 mental or other affiliation, this asso- 

 ciation, composed of public-spirited 

 Canadian citizens (now numbering 

 over 3.700) has waged a campaign 

 for seventeen years. The hard labor 

 expended in the long discouraging 

 period when conservation was a dis- 

 tionary term is bearing fruit. Even 

 in the past two years of war heavy 

 additions to the membership and a 

 wide extension of the association's 

 activities have been carried out. 



Three-fourths of the day-to-day 

 energies of the association are ex- 

 pended on forest fire prevention 

 through Avinning public co-opera- 

 tion. Experience in the United 

 States, and to a considerable extenf 

 in British Columbia and Quebec, 

 has plainly proved that skilful and 



persistent education must travel' 

 hand in hand with lookout towers, 

 trails, telephone lines and rangers. 

 How the educative portion of the 

 work is carried out by the Canadian 

 Forestry Association may be briefly 

 indicated. 



Practically all newspapers in Can- 

 ada, daily, weekly, commercial, re- 

 ligious, etc., give the association the 

 fullest assistance in spreading in- 

 formation about the importance of 

 the wood-using industries and the 

 need of guarding their supplies. 

 Hundreds of articles, many illus- 

 trated, are prepared and placed. 

 Newspaper cartoons, putting a ser- 

 mon in a nutshell, are placed with 

 about three hundred papers twice a 

 month. Co-operation is also given 

 to public and private forest agencies 

 in getting important news to the 

 newspapers and magazines, such as 

 prosecutions of settlers, changes in 

 regulations, etc. 



illustrated lectures under* the au- 

 spices of public societies are given 

 in many parts of Canada, ^lotion 

 picture theatres are freely utilized 

 to show special fire cartoons between 

 the reels. "Ready-prepared" lan- 

 tern lectures are sent to ministers, 

 teachers, etc.. who have facilities for 

 gathering audiences. 



The Printed Word. 



One of the most fruitful activities 

 in which the Canadian Forestry As- 

 sociation is engaged is the encour- 

 agement of Boards of Trade. Muni- 

 cipal Councils, clubs and societies 

 to take an interest in the forest con- 

 ditions of their localities and to 

 bring pressure to bear upon pro- 

 vincial and federal authorities for 

 needed reforms in administration or 

 in laws. 



The influence of the printed word 

 was never so definite and real as to- 

 day. The association makes use of 

 print and illustration to an extent 

 limited only by its finances. During 

 the past seven months fifteen thous- 

 and copies of "The Boy Scout's For- 

 est Book" were placed in the hands 

 of school boys and girls and their 



