. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. 394 Canadian Forestry Ma,i^a.:ine, August-September, A fire-swept jackpine ridge. The trees are all dead, but still rooted in rock crevices. All the soil is consumed and the district transformed from a public asset to a public liability. The nation that holds great forests holds the key to prosperity. If Canada can retain her forests, Canada need fear no public debt. A Forest and a Barn To retain forests, as to retain a wood- en barn, means that fire shall be given no point of entry. A simple formula indeed with th
. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. 394 Canadian Forestry Ma,i^a.:ine, August-September, A fire-swept jackpine ridge. The trees are all dead, but still rooted in rock crevices. All the soil is consumed and the district transformed from a public asset to a public liability. The nation that holds great forests holds the key to prosperity. If Canada can retain her forests, Canada need fear no public debt. A Forest and a Barn To retain forests, as to retain a wood- en barn, means that fire shall be given no point of entry. A simple formula indeed with the barn, where all who ap- proach it have a vital stake in its pro- tection. \\\t\\ the forest unfenced, mostly unwatched, the remedy is not so simple. Consider the problem of the Riordon Company, which controls a timber area as large as Belgium. Essential as is all the machinery of fire prevention and fire fighting, now in effect, the niore comprehensive anti- dote to forest fires is to undemiine the cause, which is human carelessness. Ranger patrol requires to be supplement- ed by Educational Patrol. The settler whose fires run riot and ruin timber tracts is usually a reasonable sort of man, influenced by intelligent appeals for his co-operation. Thousands of men who start forest fires do so out of a tradi- tional ill-will towards limit holders, and this is often fanned by selfish agitators. Thousands of campers and fishermen and hunters are waiting to learn by ex- perience the extreme peril of careless- ness bv fire while in the woods, but they are willing to learn in advance if ap- proached from the right angle. This all boils down to a consideration of the value of educational propaganda fnr the guarding of forests against the common causes of fire. The Canadian Forestry Association, co-operating with all Government and private agencies, carries on aggressive educational work throughout Canada, aimed at preventing needless destruction of the country's forest resources. The
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