. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. 1172 Canadian Forestry Journal, June, 1917 The superior staff consists of the Chief Inspector of Forestry and two foresters as Assistant Inspectors, in addition to a trained foreman in charge of the chief planting and for- est stations. Schemes too Radical The work can only be increased when the funds are increased, which is unlikely at present. The start already made, in addition to break- ing the ice for the British Isles, can- not help but be of great effect in in- fluencing the standard of forestry practised by land o
. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. 1172 Canadian Forestry Journal, June, 1917 The superior staff consists of the Chief Inspector of Forestry and two foresters as Assistant Inspectors, in addition to a trained foreman in charge of the chief planting and for- est stations. Schemes too Radical The work can only be increased when the funds are increased, which is unlikely at present. The start already made, in addition to break- ing the ice for the British Isles, can- not help but be of great effect in in- fluencing the standard of forestry practised by land owners and (by showing results) in leading to the further state purchase of land for forest planting. The propaganda work carried on in Great Britain has not been of the proper type. The schemes proposed have been too sweeping and have frightened govern- ments, land owners and tax payers alike. The published details, by be- ing interwoven with plans for the utilization of the unemployed and by providing for the planting of areas not likely to produce timber at a profit, and by sweeping away grazing rights and moor lands at a stroke have earned for forest planting more opponents than friends. The in- dustrial side of the cjuestion does not appear to have been sufficiently treat- ed. It has not been made sufficiently clear, in a local manner, how the existence of even small forest areas would benefit towns and industries. Though the utilization of home re- sources is a burning topic in Britain, but little has been said of the present wasted forest opportunity, bound to continue so long as the planted and managed forests of France supply pit props to the coal mines lying beneath the denuded hills and valleys of Wales. CANOES STAMPED FROM VENEER A new use for wood has been de- veloped in Michigan in the making of canoes by a new system. The new idea is the stamping out of the finished canoe, from veneer, instead of the old-fashioned manner of build- ing up a canoe from ribs of prepa
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