. Canadian forest industries 1908. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. i6 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER nurseries, superintended the planting of 2,500,000 trees in the Adiron- dacks, organized the work of collecting, tree seeds, and took charge of the fire protective service. In 1903 he made a collection of all the commercial woods and wood products of New York for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, held at St. Louis, Mo. In the spring of the next year he went to St. Louis and made on the Exposition grounds a forest nursery of 100,000
. Canadian forest industries 1908. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. i6 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER nurseries, superintended the planting of 2,500,000 trees in the Adiron- dacks, organized the work of collecting, tree seeds, and took charge of the fire protective service. In 1903 he made a collection of all the commercial woods and wood products of New York for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, held at St. Louis, Mo. In the spring of the next year he went to St. Louis and made on the Exposition grounds a forest nursery of 100,000 living trees for which he received a silver medal and the Forest, Fish and Game Commission a gold medal from the Committe on Awards. In 1904 Mr. Knechtel was sent by the State to Europe to study and photograph the forests. He spent four months in visiting France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy, bringing back with him 300 negatives showing phases of forestry work abroad. He has published a number of bulletins and articles on f orestry subjects, some of the more important being: "The Cultivated Forests of Europe," "Methods of Estimating and Measuring Standing Timber" and "Making a Woodlot from ; During the winters of 1906 and 1907 he lectured on forestry subjects in fifty places in cities and villages of the-State. He has now ten appoint- ments for the month of February in New York City where he lectures for the Education Department. In these lectures, which are illustrated, Mr. Knechtel presents one hundred stereoptican views made from his own negatives, taken at home and abroad. There are pictures of forests, lakes, rivers, waterfalls, birds and wild animals in the woods, boating, fishing, hunting, fire fighting, lumbering and forest planting. They are all colored true to life and are very beautiful indeed. rules and regulations as established by Order-in-Council of the 4th April, 1905, be repealed and the following substituted theref
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