. Canadian forest industries 1897-1899. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. TO CANADA LUMBERMAN I T ...... r Pl'D VlT A P Volume X\ III. Number 5. FORESTRY AND THE LUMBER INDUSTRY. By Thomas Solthworth. There appears to be an impression among many of the men engaged in the lumbering busi- ness in this country that the methods and aims of the advocates of a rational system of forestry are not only impracticable in Ontario, but would, if a serious attempt were made to carry them out, prove inimical to the interests of the lumbermen. This a
. Canadian forest industries 1897-1899. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. TO CANADA LUMBERMAN I T ...... r Pl'D VlT A P Volume X\ III. Number 5. FORESTRY AND THE LUMBER INDUSTRY. By Thomas Solthworth. There appears to be an impression among many of the men engaged in the lumbering busi- ness in this country that the methods and aims of the advocates of a rational system of forestry are not only impracticable in Ontario, but would, if a serious attempt were made to carry them out, prove inimical to the interests of the lumbermen. This attitude of many of our lumbermen towards the forestry movement is based on a misappre- hension of the methods and aims of forestry advocates, excusable, perhaps, but a misappre- hension nevertheless. On the other hand, it is only fair to state that many forestry advocates have been apt to look upon the lumbermen simply as ruthless despoilers of the forest, and failed to fairly take into account the surroundings of an industry attended with so much risk. Foreseeing the disastrous consequences that must inevitably follow upon the reckless and complete de- struction of our forests by axe and fire, these men en- deavored to arouse public opinion to the realization of the impending danger. They saw many of the older settled counties in the pro- vince being rapidly stripped of trees in some the per- centage of woodland being as low as five per cent.; they found streams that once afforded considerable water powers drying up ; they noticed that a period of dry weather has a greater effect on grain crops now than in former years; in fact they saw deterioration in the climate and resources of Ontario, and perceiving the cause they called for a cessation in the work of forest destruction. In their alarm it is, perhaps, not to be wondered at if some forestry advocates should seek first to stop the cutting of trees,'over- looking the fact that forest trees are a crop to be harvested, and on
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