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Quebec has followed this example of Ontario, first 

 by setting aside the Laurentides Park in the Saguensy 

 region, (1,634,000 acres), which, like Algonquin Park, 

 was more in the nature of a game preserve. During 

 1906-7, however, under a law authorizing the Lieuten- 

 ant Governor to set aside forest reserves, over 100 mil- 

 lion acres were placed in reserve. Apparently, how- 

 ever, no administration of this preserve in the forestry 

 sense is as yet attempted. 



British Columbia, which until lately was only con- 

 cerned in disposing of the well timbered crown-lands, 

 after having disposed of the best parts, has placed under 

 reservation the balance, and a forest commission of 

 inquiry has been constituted to devise further measures 

 in the interest of forestry. 



Of other attempts to foster forestry interests may 

 be mentioned a law in Quebec, passed in 1882, provid- 

 ing a bonus of $12 per acre for tree planting, which 

 seems to have remained without effect; another, pro- 

 viding for a diameter limit of 12 inches on the stump 

 for pine and 9 inches for other kinds, inaugurated in 

 1888, may have preserved some young growth on the 

 limits, although, since pulpwood is now the main 

 product, and supervision is inefficient, not much may 

 be expected from such laws. 



The Dominion has been active in encouraging tree- 

 planting in the prairies. The Agricultural Experiment 

 Station at Ottawa not only set out object lessons by 

 planting some 20 acres of sample plots, but for a num- 

 ber of years distributed plant material to settlers. 

 This work has lately been taken over by the Forestry 

 Branch and increased to a larger scale, some 160 acres 



