. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. Canadidu Journal, October, 1U17 1337 iHl iiihi li L ?. A view of the B. C. Provincial Nursery at Essondale. The Case For New Brunswick's Forests By Robson Black Secretary Canadian Forestry Association A Discussion of Present-Day Forest Conditions With Some Suggestions For Provincial Action. WERE the whole of the Dominion of Canada inventoried after the manner of a personal estate, we would see five great natural en- dowments set forth in the order of their present day value:— AGRICULTURAL LAND THE FORESTS THE M
. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. Canadidu Journal, October, 1U17 1337 iHl iiihi li L ?. A view of the B. C. Provincial Nursery at Essondale. The Case For New Brunswick's Forests By Robson Black Secretary Canadian Forestry Association A Discussion of Present-Day Forest Conditions With Some Suggestions For Provincial Action. WERE the whole of the Dominion of Canada inventoried after the manner of a personal estate, we would see five great natural en- dowments set forth in the order of their present day value:— AGRICULTURAL LAND THE FORESTS THE MINES THE FISHERIES THE WATER POWERS. From lands, forests and fisheries, the industiy of man has taken toll for more than three hundred years. At first content to realize from the land merely the food, clothing and fuel of a family, improved facilities for trade and growth of population gradually reared a more complex commercial machinery until in most parts of the Dominion the raw materials of field and forest, mine and waters, can be sent forth today in a completely manufactured state. The natural resources themselves, however, remain the foundation of practically all human activity. Towns and cities are built upon faith in their inexhaustibility. Transportation lines have been directed into almost every corner of the country to turn these resources to general profit. Export trade with lands less generously endowed has grown to great volume. In the days when the geographical bulk of the Dominion—so much of it unexplored and unassessed as to values^—gave rise to prophecies of fabulous wealth, it was not surprising that the public should be blinded to the possi- bilities of depletion of mines or timberlands. Prognostications of inexhaust- ible resources in Ungava and about Hudson's Bay, in Labrador, and other sections of which accurate information was lacking, created an over-con-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digi
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