. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. Canadian Forestry Journal, October, 1919 421 storage piles which are needed for the winter monthes and which tie up large sums of money can be done away with, transportation and log- ging costs can be materially cut, and a better and more uniform quality of raw material can be produced. The cost is by no means pro- hibitive and the production per acre can be multiplied by eight. The Laurentide Company, Limited, was the first Canadian company to investigate the ques- tion, and had farsightedness and courage enough to tackl
. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. Canadian Forestry Journal, October, 1919 421 storage piles which are needed for the winter monthes and which tie up large sums of money can be done away with, transportation and log- ging costs can be materially cut, and a better and more uniform quality of raw material can be produced. The cost is by no means pro- hibitive and the production per acre can be multiplied by eight. The Laurentide Company, Limited, was the first Canadian company to investigate the ques- tion, and had farsightedness and courage enough to tackle the problem "man fashion," and others are following in its footsteps. A determined effort to eliminate forest fires was begun in !908 by the formation of a special de- partment for that purpose and when the con- struction of the National Transcontinental Rail- way was begun a co-operative association was organized to prevent fires along the right-of- way and this developed into the St. Maurice Forest Protective Association, which has so reduced the fire hazard that the loss of mer- chantable timber is now less than one-hundredth of one per cent. Using Two Seaplanes. This association is experimenting with two seaplanes, loaned by the Depaitment of Naval Service, in the discovery and fighting of forest fires and in mapping timber limits, and the ex- periment so far shows that they will be of the greatest practical value. In 1908 the first experimental plantations were made and these were continued on a small scale until 1914, when about 150,000 trees were planted. The nursery was enlarged in 1915, and each year since then, until now the number of trees for planting will reach two millions in 1921. This year one million trees were planted. It is planned to plant annually a little more than the number cut and to build up an area of approximately 400 square miles of planted timber which will be cut on a rota- tion of forty years, that is one-fortieth of the area will be
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