. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. Editor, "Canadian Forestry JournaL" My deep interest in the subject prompts me to send you this brief reply to your two questions: 1. What in my view is the position assured to Canadian forest products in future export markets? In respect to this the situation is obvoius. For nearly four years and a half the most destructive war of the ages has raged over a great part of the world on land, on sea and in the air. It has been a war of tremendous equipments and of most destructive appli- ances in offence and defenc
. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. Editor, "Canadian Forestry JournaL" My deep interest in the subject prompts me to send you this brief reply to your two questions: 1. What in my view is the position assured to Canadian forest products in future export markets? In respect to this the situation is obvoius. For nearly four years and a half the most destructive war of the ages has raged over a great part of the world on land, on sea and in the air. It has been a war of tremendous equipments and of most destructive appli- ances in offence and defence. For this equip- ment in ships, airplanes, bridges, trench housing and packing construction, the call upon forest resources has been almost in- calculable. This call has not been satisfied from the usual timber resources, but has been made with peculiar insistence upon private and public timber areas hitherto Httle cut, which constituted as it were, great growing reserves for future use. In this way the standing and preserved areas in Great Britain, France, Belgium and Central Europe have been sadly depleted. This, however, is only one side of the picture. A World of Bare Shelves. Whilst this severe and pitiless requisition on standing timber was benig made, forces of destruction by virtue of and armed by this very supply were incessantly at work sinking, burning, and to atoms structures of all conceivable kinds in which wood formed the material in whole or in part. So that here we have had the merry race of devasta- tion feverishly employing the living material in order through its destruction to destroy the vast accumulation of dead and built in ma- terial. It needs but a moment's thought to conceive the effect of this double orgy of destruction upon the world's forest resources. But it will tatx the capacity of the best statisticians to display the incalculable Now when peace comes, the world's shelves are bare, the world's resources are diminished and th
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