. Canadian forest industries 1901-1902. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN May, 1901 wild country ; the cost alone of maintaining an armory of forest rangers is sufficient to appall any government un- dertaking the task, and after all would such a system be efficient? I doubt if it would, only to a limited degree. Those areas of forests lying beyond the limits of tion would still be liable to the devastating influence of forest fines set out in many instances by pros- pectors in search of mineral wealth, in
. Canadian forest industries 1901-1902. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN May, 1901 wild country ; the cost alone of maintaining an armory of forest rangers is sufficient to appall any government un- dertaking the task, and after all would such a system be efficient? I doubt if it would, only to a limited degree. Those areas of forests lying beyond the limits of tion would still be liable to the devastating influence of forest fines set out in many instances by pros- pectors in search of mineral wealth, in others by careless- ness, and in some instances possibly by natural causes. Nevertheless no other system seems apparent, and if pro- perly managed, it could, I believe, be made effective in those portions of the province adjacent to settlements and where the operation? of the lumbermen and woodmen are carried on, and where also by special taxation the system might be made self sustaining. In conclusion let me say to those members of the Can- adian Forestry Association who have not visited the West that they have yet to see a forest in all its magnificence. No other word seems to me to convey a proper idea of a virgin forest of the west. Picture to yourselves thous- ands of trees, Douglas Fir predominating, of prodigious size, so close together that it is with difficulty and often impossible for an animal to go between, limbless except the tops through which the rays of the sun scarcely pene- trate, the ground carpeted with mosses and ferns, and the hush of nature all around you, and you can perhaps form some idea of a forest in British Columbia. DISCUSSION. Dr. Saunders said that he could confirm the statements that were made by Mr. Anderson re- garding the great forest wealth of British Colum- bia. In going through a forest thirty miles from Victoria he had found the trees so numer- ous as to make it difficult to get around. One tree which had fallen was measured and was foun
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