188 FORESTRY IN CANADA. 



New Brunswick has not yet made provision for the distribution 

 of nursery stock, but expert advice to timber holders is said to be 

 available. An annual grant is given to the Canadian Forestry 

 Society. Financial assistance has been given to the Dominion 

 Bureau of plant pathology and to the Dominion entomological 

 branch for the balsam bud-worm investigation. 

 In Nova Scotia no assistance is given to forestry, 

 (d) The Forest Authorities. — The forest authorities of Canada 

 are not easy to describe. They are very numerous and it is 

 difficult to say, from the records to hand, where and to what 

 extent they overlap. Each province has its own arrangement as 

 well as the Dominion Government. Under these circumstances 

 it will suffice to indicate the duties and powers of the authorities 

 in the Dominion, some of which hold good in the provinces. 



The timber lands are administered by three different branches 

 of the Department of the Interior of the Federal Government. 

 They are : — 



(1) The Forestry Branch.— It has its headquarters at Ottawa 

 and is presided over by the Director of Forestry. Its activity 

 extends to the administration of forest reserves, fire protection, 

 forest surveys, tree planting and products research. 



Each reserve of sufficient importance has a Forest Supervisor 

 with the necessary staff. The reserves are arranged into four 

 Inspections, each in charge of a District Inspector, who organises 

 and controls the general administration of the reserves. Forest 

 Rangers are in charge of smaller reserves. 



Fire protection in reserves and in their immediate vicinity is 

 carried on by the reserves staff. For Dominion lands outside 

 forest reserves a special staff has been organised under a specialist 

 at the head office. The protection of forests from fire along 

 railway lines on Dominion lands is under a separate organisation. 

 Forest Survey work is under the charge of the Chief Surveyor 

 at the head office, who organises the required number of survey 

 parties and controls their work, which includes reconnaissance 

 surveys to determine the suitability of Crown lands for forest 

 production, and the estimation of standing timber on certain 

 areas. 



The Forest Statistician at head office compiles and publishes 

 statistics on forest products and investigates wood-using industries. 



