Canadian Forestry Journal, December, igi6 



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Negligence. 



(Montreal Witness.) 



An expert on forestry told the Do- 

 minions royal commission the other 

 day at its Montreal sitting, that within 

 twenty-five years Canada would have 

 lost its wood pulp supply if conserva- 

 tion measures are not adopted mean- 

 while. This is not the first or second 

 time we have heard something like this 

 from authorities more or less distin- 

 guished. In fact we have heard it so 



frequently that possibly we have come 

 to regard it as a "wolf" cry and for that 

 1-eason take little notice of it. 



It is many years since the Dominion 

 conservation commission first gave this 

 country warning on this subject. Since 

 then the warning has been repeated 

 times without number, and is still be- 

 ing repeated. Why should this be so? 

 Of what value is a conservation com- 

 mission if no notice is taken of its re- 

 ports and warnings? Where are the 

 wise men in governments of Canada, 

 Dominion and provincial, who should 

 be attending to this most important 



matter? What right have the people 

 of this generation to continue squan- 

 dering the heritage which should be 

 merely used by them and handed down 

 to posterity richer than ever before? 



The expert who speaks to-day says 

 that three things are working to bring 

 our pulp wood forests to naught. One 

 is the absence of any plan of reforesta- 

 tion, another the absence of any ade- 

 quate system of fire protection, and the 

 third is the great waste which is per- 

 mitted by those who should know bet- 

 ter in almost every forest area. In 

 this connection he states that thirty 

 per cent, of the pulp woods of Canada 

 have been burned over and rendered 

 useless for generations to come. 



Evidently there is something radical- 

 ly wrong somewhere; something lack- 

 ing. And it is surely time the people 

 of Canada should insist upon their gov- 

 ernments enacting such legislation as 

 may be necessary to prevent early 

 bankruptcy in this decidedly valuable 

 department of the country's resources. 



