. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. Canadian Forestry Journal, March, 1917 997. THE MOTOR CAR IN THE FOREST Manager Sorgius of the St. Maurice Forest Protective Association uses a Ford on any path where the stumps are six feet apart. The actual saving of patrol by auto over horse vehicle, employing a man with each to patrol the same district is thus rather hard to measure directly in dollars and cents. So far we have figured only on the basis of using an auto patrolman, instead of a horse patrolman, in the same district. Using these fig- ures, it needs litt
. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. Canadian Forestry Journal, March, 1917 997. THE MOTOR CAR IN THE FOREST Manager Sorgius of the St. Maurice Forest Protective Association uses a Ford on any path where the stumps are six feet apart. The actual saving of patrol by auto over horse vehicle, employing a man with each to patrol the same district is thus rather hard to measure directly in dollars and cents. So far we have figured only on the basis of using an auto patrolman, instead of a horse patrolman, in the same district. Using these fig- ures, it needs little imagination to see the revolution motor cars will make in Forest Protection work when protection districts are apportioned according to the efficiency of the motor patrol force. If motor patrol alone is used, where roads are good and plentiful enough to allow of such action the ordinary staff of guards can be cut in two, allowing of greater concentration at the times of greater danger. This is one of the very important points in favor of the use of motors. Taking Care of Permits The ideal method of using cars for patrol would seem to be to place a small force of patrolmen or guards on duty early in the spring and supply them with light cars. They could take care of all permit issuing and other protection work up till the first dangerous period. More patrol- men could then be added, and at the top of the danger season, the field force, owing to the saving effected in the early part by the smaller staff would be greater than ordinary. This would cut down to a very great ex- tent, the area of each patrol district and reduce the chance of fires getting out of control. At the start of the 1916 fire season we decided that the best way to figure the saving effected by the motors used by the District Forester and Rangers would be to compare the cost and time taken of each trip made with the motor with the cost and time that would have been taken using the existing means of travel. T
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