90 Our Field and Forest Trees 



Indian (Cree and Chipewayan), Norwegian, Rus- 

 sian, Hungarian, Hindu, Japanese, and Chinese. 



The department has also published a little 

 pamphlet explaining the dangers of fire, setting 

 forth the laws concerning it and telling how to 

 fight it. This is issued in many languages, and 

 more than two hundred thousand copies have been 

 distributed. 



It Is estimated that more than half the eastern 

 slope of the Canadian Rockies has been fire-swept 

 within the past sixty years. 



The department Is now trying to reforestize 

 some of the land where fire has left desolation. 

 In a spirit of serene hopefulness, a few seeds, with 

 a handful of sand over them, were put down where 

 a forest tree was wanted, but the only ones which 

 sprouted were those which lay safely hidden in long 

 grass. Elsewhere the sowing merely provided 

 free lunches for hungry vegetarians of the wilds. 



So Canada has instituted two forest nurseries, 

 one at Indian Head, Saskatchewan, and one at a 

 place called Sutherland, about five miles from 

 Saskatoon. In these, baby trees are well started 

 In life before being transplanted to their perma- 

 nent homes. These nurseries are in charge of a 

 separate department of the Dominion Forestry 

 Service known technically as the " Division of 

 Tree Planting." The trees propagated here are 

 for distribution to farmers living on the prairie. 

 Young trees needed for renewing the Dominion 



