Canadian Forestry Journal, October, igi6 



763 



the huge stump roots, trees we had 

 felled only in March had shoots three 

 and four feet in height by the end of 

 April. The healthiest of these shoots 

 would be banked around with a little 

 earth later by the forester, and the re- 

 maining shoots trimmed away and 

 gradually the new tree would replace 

 the old. It seemed an ideal system. 



When the trees reach a diameter of 

 six or seven inches they are branded 

 with the year the former tree was felled 

 and with a number which is entered on 

 the forest registry, and the history of 

 the new tree begins. It ends when the 

 standing timber is sold and the tree 

 marked with a large "X" scored in the 

 trunk by the forester and the purchas- 

 er, whether, as in our case, the British 

 Government or a private individual, 

 fells the tree, cuts the stump level with 

 the ground again, and leaves nature to 

 do the rest. 



Quite different is our system of 

 swinging the axe waist high and leaving 

 behind us a mass of stumps surrounded 

 by piles of brush-wood waiting only for 

 the match of a careless smoker to com- 

 plete the devastation that we have be- 



Think of the saving for Canada if 

 every man cutting a tree could be made 

 to level the stump and protect the 

 young tree during the first few years 

 of its growth. 



In France everv roadwav is outlined 

 with beautiful trees, not for picturesque 

 effect, though the result is artistic in 

 the extreme, but because the roads are 

 the nation's, and the nation knows the 

 value of its standing timber. 



We on the other hand seem to fail to 

 realize the value of ours. 



FREDERIC C. CURRY. Capt. 

 Late 2nd Army A\^ood Cutters. 



Brockville. Canada. 



The fall meeting of the technical sec- 

 tion of the Canadian Pulp and Paper 

 Association will be held in Montreal on 

 November 15 and 16. There will be 

 a paper and discussion on the forestry 

 end of pulp wood production. 



Sixty-eight members of the B. C. 

 Forest Branch have enlisted, in addi- 

 tion to 47 forest guards. Messrs. 

 Mitchell and Rees have won the Mili- 

 tary Cross. 



Ranger Reaches Tree Top With SpiraJ 

 Ladder. 



On the summit of Brush Mountain 

 in the Crater National Forest of south- 

 ern Oregon, the top of a tall fir tree is 

 used as a lookout station by a ranger 

 who patrols the woods and is on a con- 

 stant vigil for fires. In establishing 

 his observatory, the man constructed 

 a spiral ladder which winds about the 

 trunk and extends to the uppermost 

 part of the great tree. He did the 

 work unassisted, and in a staunch and 

 durable manner . The rungs of the 

 ladder consist of heavy yew pegs driv- 

 en into 2-in. auger holes, spaced at reg- 

 ular intervals and bored 1 ft. deep into 

 the tree. After these members had 

 been put in place, their outer ends were 

 connected and reinforced by a log rail- 

 ing, made of partly sawed Douglas fir 

 poles. 



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