. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. Transient Life of Timber Areas Under Ordinary Exploitation Creates Transient Towns and Homeless Workers. The right development of our vast natural re- sources offers a field of opportunity to the re- turning soldier. In the past the use of our natural resources has failed even more than land settlement to develop permanent and con- tented communities. The mining camp, the lumber camp, and the construction camp, with their shifting population, are typical of the transitory character of the industries them- selves. There is
. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. Transient Life of Timber Areas Under Ordinary Exploitation Creates Transient Towns and Homeless Workers. The right development of our vast natural re- sources offers a field of opportunity to the re- turning soldier. In the past the use of our natural resources has failed even more than land settlement to develop permanent and con- tented communities. The mining camp, the lumber camp, and the construction camp, with their shifting population, are typical of the transitory character of the industries them- selves. There is no more familiar sight in the region of our greatest development of natural resources than the "blanket stiff" going from camp to camp seeking a better job. The op- portunities of the future, both for the returning soldier and for the people who live in the re- gions where there are great natural resources awaiting development, lie in the establishment of permanent industries and permanent com- munities. In mining operations, permanent communities providing healthful living con- ditions could be established because the life of the mines extends, as a rule, over a long number of years. This is particularly true where mining is carried on in the neighborhood of agricultural lands. In the case of the for- est, which IS a renewable resource, it is per- fectly feasible to create healthy and permanent towns if the lumber industry itself is stabilized. The lumber industry as it is at present con- stituted offers small opportunity for permanent and contented communities. It has passed over this country from ocean to ocean in a series of waves. It originated in Maine, moved to Michigan in the seventies, completed its highest development in the Lake stales in the nineties, and is now flourishing in tlie southeast. There it will be exhausted in a few decades and will then centre on the Pacific coast. As a rule it has not left permanent communities in its wake, unless the land w
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