. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. Canadian Fairslrij Journal, Augusl, I HI] 127)1 Conscripting Forests for Peace or War What Canada has done in utiHzing her timbei' endowment —New duties after the War. By Hobson Black Secreietry, Canadian Forcsliij Association. In these piping limes of war the regiment is just one of a hundred fighting units. Every beUigerent country, to a greater or less degree, "ca'ls up" its, raih'oads, factories, banks, farms, forests and mines and assigns them to the battlefield. In- dividuals and names mean less and less a
. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. Canadian Fairslrij Journal, Augusl, I HI] 127)1 Conscripting Forests for Peace or War What Canada has done in utiHzing her timbei' endowment —New duties after the War. By Hobson Black Secreietry, Canadian Forcsliij Association. In these piping limes of war the regiment is just one of a hundred fighting units. Every beUigerent country, to a greater or less degree, "ca'ls up" its, raih'oads, factories, banks, farms, forests and mines and assigns them to the battlefield. In- dividuals and names mean less and less as the war grows old; the plan is everything. This total concentration upon "the idea of science" in the conduct of the war is certain to extend to our nation- al housekeeping when peace shall have returned. If the State can marshal armies and set them to work with such exactness and economy, why should not these same ends be secur- ed in the peace-time warfare of field and forest, waterway and mine? That, at all events is the line of public think- ing. Unless Canada is to be entirely crushed by the debts of war, the man- ner of operating the nation's natural resources in the interests of the great- est number of people must take its bearings by "the idea of ; When Trees Were Weeds It is in the history of all new coun- tries that the key of conservation is turned on an empty stable. As no new land starts business on a blue print of its future, preferring to work an elaborate cure rather than a s'm- ple preventive, it is not surprising that Canada during a hundred years should have victimized her forest re- sources by neglect and maltreatment There were days when French and English settlers shook their fists at every pine tree cluttering thrir agri-. BRINGING OUT BRITISH COLUMBIA "BIG ;. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearanc
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