. Canadian forest industries July-December 1912. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. G. C. Piche, Qtebec, THE Forest Branch of the Department of Lands & Forests of the Province of Quebec has of late years made great progress in the work of surveying the forest lands o£ the province and in protecting its timher resources. With so large a country to cover and such extensive timher resources, the work of the Department is neces- sarily of the most difficult nature and requires the expenditure of a large amount of money, together wi
. Canadian forest industries July-December 1912. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. G. C. Piche, Qtebec, THE Forest Branch of the Department of Lands & Forests of the Province of Quebec has of late years made great progress in the work of surveying the forest lands o£ the province and in protecting its timher resources. With so large a country to cover and such extensive timher resources, the work of the Department is neces- sarily of the most difficult nature and requires the expenditure of a large amount of money, together with the efforts of the most effici- ent staff that can he brought to- gether. The policy of the depart- ment of Lands and Forests has heen to employ in the work of the Forest Branch, only men who have shown themselves thorough- ly versed in matters of forestry. In the first place they inaugurated this policy by securing as the head of the Branch, Mr. < i. (. ". Piche, a man who has made forestry his life work and who has that fortunate combination of husiness ability and tact which arc essential in one who is to take charge of the forestry work of such a large province as Quebec. Mr. Piche's work is often of a nature requiring the utmost tact and knowledge of human nature, as it constitutes him a go-between whenever the interests of the Department and those of the lumbermen, or the in- terests of the lumhermcn and the settlers, appear to he at variance. That he has been successful in gaining the co-operation both of the settlers and the lumbermen is attested in many quarters and speaks volumes for his fitness for the position which he occupies. One hears occasional criticism of the department in connection with individual details of its work, yet on the whole Mr. Piche has been able to secure the co-operation of the lumbermen and has brought them to feel that the interests of the province and their own interests are in many cases identical. The natural result has been t
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