. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. 1222 Canadian Forestry Journal, July, 1917 ond growth of pine had twenty-seven years ago, in many cases, attained a diameter of four to six inches at the but . To-day these trees are ten to eighteen inches at the butt and forty to fifty feet high. Left alone for an- other cjuarter of a century or so there would be in this section a magnificent forest of mature pine. But, so I am told, these immature trees are about to be cut down and sawn up for what can be got out of them now. The chances are that, in the subsecfuent bur
. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. 1222 Canadian Forestry Journal, July, 1917 ond growth of pine had twenty-seven years ago, in many cases, attained a diameter of four to six inches at the but . To-day these trees are ten to eighteen inches at the butt and forty to fifty feet high. Left alone for an- other cjuarter of a century or so there would be in this section a magnificent forest of mature pine. But, so I am told, these immature trees are about to be cut down and sawn up for what can be got out of them now. The chances are that, in the subsecfuent burning of the refuse, fires will be started that will destroy a host of trees still farther from maturity. It does seem a sinful waste of Nature's bounties. Ontario's Duty These sandy areas at either end of the Great Saucer should never have been alienated from the public do- main. They should have been re- tained as part of a Provincial forest reserve. The duty of to-day is to see that they are brought back into pub- lic ownership and made to serve the purpose Nature intended them to serve—the growing of timber. Replanting for Soldiers In its editorial columns, the "Globe' observes: In the absence of public regulation, this sort of thing will go on until, between cutting and burning, the dune will be left a barren waste, absolutely bare of tree growth of any kind. Then the dunes, a mass of light sand, lashed by winds sweeping down from Georgian Bay, will become a very serious menace to the fertile valley lying to the south. To the south of the valley, and north of Barrie, is a sand plateau where the present and past conditions of the sand dunes to the north are re- peated. This plateau was also once covered with timber. Years ago the mature growth was removed. To-day there are considerable numbers of young pines growing from seed scat- tered by the parent stock. Cutting and burning here, too, as the years pass, in the absence of public control, will leave a sandy waste, w
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