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Our Timber Wealth and its Conservation 
By WILLIAM J. SUTTON, F.G.S. 
JANUARY 10th, 1910 
The purpose of this paper, as the title indicates, is to 
present a general survey of the forest trees of the Province of 
British Columbia and call attention to the vital questions of 
conservation and reforestation. 
The following are the principal forest trees of commercial 
value, indigenous to the Province, in approximately the order 
of their relative importance : 
Douglas Fir 
Western Red Cedar 
Western Hemlock 
Menzies S'pruce 
Engelmann Spruce 
Western Yellow Pine 
Lodgepole or Black Pine 
Western Larch or Tamarack 
Balsam or Amabilis Fir 
Black Cottonwood 
Aspen Poplar 
Grand or White Fir 
Western White Pine 
Yellow Cedar 
White Spruce 
Broadleaf Maple 
Red Alder 
Garry Oak. 
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THE DOUGLAS FIR (Pseudotsuga taxifolia) 
This is the most important forest tree in British Columbia, 
and which, strange as it may appear, is the native home of this 
remarkable tree. It is only indigenous to the northwestern 
