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Canadian Forestry Journal, July, ipi6. 



(Courtesy of Grand Trunk Ry.) 



BEAUTIES OF ALGONQUIN PARK. 



A splendid view of Cache Lake, Algonquin Park, showing the heavy forest growth, the maintenance 

 of which is the foundation of a large and increasing tourist traffic. 



Common Sense Guardianship 

 = Is Wanted = 



Organ of Canadian Manufacturers* Association] Makes 



Emphatic Plea for Immediate Revision of 



Ontario's Forest Policy 



Public sentiment in Canada "on 

 the question of forest protection and 

 the need of guarding more than five 

 thousand wood-using industries 

 from the menace of forest fires has 

 reached a point which none of our 

 governments, provincial or federal, 

 can safely ignore. Through the ef- 

 forts of the Canadian Forestry As- 

 sociation and other bodies, the facts 

 regarding Canada's dependence up- 

 on cheap and abundant supplies of 



wood and the enormous damage 

 wrought annually by preventable 

 fires have been made matters of 

 common information in town and 

 country from coast to coast. 



The improvement in public intel- 

 ligence on such questions has been 

 reflected in governmental action in 

 two provinces, Quebec and British 

 Columbia, in a radical advance of 

 the forest protection services. Very 

 sensiblv the British Columbia Gov- 



