. Canadian forest industries January-June 1919. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Avila Bedard, Quebec, Assistant Chief, Forest Service and that the transformation of ex- tensive into intensive farming has without any doubt, contri- buted, of late years, to allowing the forest to reconquer the less fertile lands. The Stretches of the Alleghanys Zone The Alleghanys zone.—The Al- leghanys consist of wide parallel ridges about the same height and whose continuity is broken by valleys as large as those of the St. Francois, the Chaudie
. Canadian forest industries January-June 1919. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Avila Bedard, Quebec, Assistant Chief, Forest Service and that the transformation of ex- tensive into intensive farming has without any doubt, contri- buted, of late years, to allowing the forest to reconquer the less fertile lands. The Stretches of the Alleghanys Zone The Alleghanys zone.—The Al- leghanys consist of wide parallel ridges about the same height and whose continuity is broken by valleys as large as those of the St. Francois, the Chaudiere. the Temiscouata and the Matapedia rivers. These ridges develoj) into a comparatively elevated plateau, much dissected, and whose lobes end by abrupt slopes in the sea. The forest is not continuous in that zone; it is broken, especially to the west of Temiscouata lake, by numerous parishes with rather extensive cultivated areas. It consists chiefly of softwoods from the Chaudiere valley to the coast, w'hile west of that valley—except near the 45th parallel where spruce and balsam fir predominate—the hard- woods seem more numerous. From the standpoint of variety of trees, the latter section markedly possesses the same characteristics as the plain zone. In fact, the forests contain basswood, elm, beech, butter- nut, hemlock and white pine all of which are, properly speaking, typi- cal trees of the south-western part of the {province. From the Chaudiere valley to the coast softwoods arc generally found, spruce and balsam fir predominating. In the counties of Tem- iscouata, Rimouski and in the peninsula of Gaspe those stands are replaced, here and there, by very important white-cedar groves. On the southern slope of the Alleghanys, near the boundary line, in the counties of Montmagny, L'Islet, Kamouraska and Temiscouata hardwood forests are rather extensive; they are characterized by species such as white birch, yellow birch, aspen and sugar maple. In Gaspe region, and in
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