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362. Canadian Forests. — Canada is more fortunate than 

 the United States in the fact that many of her largest forests 

 are still intact and under the supervision of the national and 

 provincial governments. The fact that the population of the 

 Dominion of Canada is much smaller than that of the 

 United States had resulted in the Canadian forests being al- 

 most untouched at the time when a demand arose for a defi- 

 nite forest policy. Very stringent national laws were passed 



Fig. ig6. — A portion of the state forest nursery at Trout Lake, Wisconsin. 

 Photograph from the Wisconsin State Conservation Commission. 



determining the policy of the various provinces, as well as 

 regulating in a general way the forests which had passed into 

 the possession of some of the larger railways and the immense 

 tracts owned by the Hudson Bay Company. So, although 

 her forests have been at times carelessly handled, and al- 

 though, as a result, disastrous fires have destroyed large 

 quantities of timber, Canada has at present the richest 

 forests in the world ; they are rivaled only by some of the 

 tropical forests and by the extensive forested areas in Russia 

 and Siberia. 



