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reservations for this purpose. An Act 

 was passed by the Legislature three 

 years ago permitting cities to buy land 

 to be kept distinctly as forests, quite 

 aside from water purposes. There are 

 now several of these city forests in ex- 

 istence. 



Elsewhere in the United States the 

 same tendency exists. In ten large 

 and middling-sized cities forest do- 

 mains aggregating over 150,000 acres 

 are maintained, and it is probable that 

 municipal forests comprise 250,000 

 acres. Newark, N.J., has a forest of 

 22,000 acres, and in time the whole of 

 it may be scientifically forested. Hart- 

 ford, Conn., has a forest property of 

 4,000 acres, which is being developed 

 for timber production. Here are ex- 

 amples for Canadian cities. Winni- 

 peg's water development may be made 

 to serve a double purpose. Eve nTo- 

 ronto's suburban ravines, though un- 

 suited and unnecessary lor water sup- 

 ply, might serve the dual purpose of 

 timber production and park systems. 

 Municipal trading has many critics, 

 often unreasonable, but municipal re- 

 foresting should be made a possibility 

 where Provincial authority is neglect- 

 ing its duty in that regard and falling 

 behind in the march of progress." 



Editor's Note: The laws of Ontario 

 permit the establishing of municipal 

 forests, but no municipality has seen 

 fit to take advantage of the privilege, 

 common as are the examples in Europe 

 and the United States. 



Game Sanctuaries. 

 By E. R. Kerr. 



The system of Game Sanctuaries for 

 the bringing back of mild life is badly 

 needed and desired because it will 

 bring back some of the vanished game. 



This system would take nothing 

 from the public domain. It would 

 not change the legal status of one acre 

 of public land, except by protecting the 

 game upon it from being killed. 



It would sequestrate no agricultural 

 lands and no grazing lands. The 

 areas in view for these sanctuaries are 

 the wild, remote, rugged and now use- 

 less regions, utterly useless for agricul- 

 ture and for grazing. Any settler 



who goes into such a region to live is 

 doomed to perpetual poverty because 

 he cannot conquer steep mountain-sides 

 and V-shaped valleys. 



It is not the part of wisdom to let 

 those now desolate regions forever re- 

 main desolate. Even the sheepmen 

 and cattlemen admit this,— so far as 

 heard from. 



If the people, during our last cam- 

 paign, had not said that they desired 

 these sanctuaries and all that they will 

 do for Ontario, we would not now be 

 working on the establishment of Game 

 sanctuaries and the organizing of pro- 

 tective societies or bodies throughout 

 the Province. No one has been asked 

 to try and "rush" legislation through 

 the House. 



This whole matter is proposed to the 

 Legislature on a basis of absolute good 

 faith. It is not intended as an "enter- 

 ing wedge" for big appropriations and 

 a lot of new high-salaried positions; 

 but eventually it will cost a very small 

 sum of money per year. If the plan 

 is not worth a small sum of money 

 each year, it is not worth considering. 

 We call it real, "constructive conserva- 

 tion," on a large scale, at practically no 

 extra cost. 



If at any time the people of Ontario 

 decide that the public welfare demands 

 the breaking up of sanctuary areas, and 

 their opening to settlement and land 

 speculation, then "let the tail go with 

 the hide,' 'and deconsecrate and break 

 up the game sanctuaries at the same 

 time. I can stand it if all the other 

 sportsmen can. 



Many men and boys in Ontario will 

 be affected by the proposed sanctuary 

 plan of bringing back wild life. Many 

 men and boys go hunting each year, 

 and kill game — if they can find any. 

 To them this sanctuary plan means a 

 continuation of legitimate sport. — Re- 

 produced from "Rod and Gun." 



Against Xmas Tree Export. 



The following letter reached the 

 Journal from a prominent Ontario 

 lumberman : 



"So many millions of young ever- 

 greens are cut each fall, and sections 

 of the north country are devastated, 



