Forest protection in Canada, 1912-1914, by Clyde Leavitt . s of Two large Spruce Tops 66 Unlopped Tops, Little Tupper Lake, Whitney Tract. 66 XIII Result of Fire of May 20, 1911, in pile of Lopped Tops 69 Lopped Brush Piling and Skidway of Pulpwood 69 XIV. Recent Cutting on Santa Clara Lumber Tract 72 XV Unlopped Top, 21 years after Cutting for Lumber 80 Unlopped Top, Fourteen Years after Lumbering 80 XVI. Windfall on Cutting to Ten-inch Diameter Limit 85 XVII Oil and Coal Burning Railways in Canada and United States— Map 93 XVIII Scotch Pine and Jack Pine Plantation on Blow-sand Formatio
Forest protection in Canada, 1912-1914, by Clyde Leavitt . s of Two large Spruce Tops 66 Unlopped Tops, Little Tupper Lake, Whitney Tract. 66 XIII Result of Fire of May 20, 1911, in pile of Lopped Tops 69 Lopped Brush Piling and Skidway of Pulpwood 69 XIV. Recent Cutting on Santa Clara Lumber Tract 72 XV Unlopped Top, 21 years after Cutting for Lumber 80 Unlopped Top, Fourteen Years after Lumbering 80 XVI. Windfall on Cutting to Ten-inch Diameter Limit 85 XVII Oil and Coal Burning Railways in Canada and United States— Map 93 XVIII Scotch Pine and Jack Pine Plantation on Blow-sand Formation 116 XIX. Cottonwood as a Fuel Producer 129 Windbreak of Cottonwood 12 Years Old 129 XX Maples along Right-of-Way, to Protect Track from Drifting Snow 131 Willows along Right-of-Way on the Prairies 131 XXI. A Pine Nursery at the Norfolk Forest Station 132 XXII. Eleven-year-old Scotch Pine Plantation, York State Lands 135Scotch Pine Plantation, Axton, Adirondack Preserve 135 XXIII. The Result of Repeated Forest Fires, Northern Ontario 1 jti. Forest Protection in Canada 1912Part I. Protection from Railway Fires FROM the beginning of railway legislation in Canada, ithas been recognized that the operation of coal-burninglocomotives is a source of fire danger to adjacent prop-erty interests. The original Railway Act of 1903 con-tained definite recognition of the principle that railwaycompanies must themselves bear the burden of protecting the publicagainst fire loss due to railway operation. The extension of the applica-tion of this principle has been gradual but steady, until at the presenttime the provisions of the Railway Act and of the Regulations issuedunder them comprise the most extensive and the most efficient provis-ions to be found on this continent for the prevention and control ofrailway fires by the railways themselves. The provisions of the Railway Act which specifically relate to thefire question are as follows:—? Extracts from the Railway Act of Cana
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