. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. Canadian Foreslri/ Journal, November, 1917 1389. Hauling Out Logs on a New Brunswick Timber Limit Nova Scotia's Forest Position By F. C. Whitman Annapolis Royal, Formerly President, Canadian Forestry Assoc. Deteriorating Source of Wood Supplies Runs Up Production of Fishing and Farming Costs. In the early "nineties" and up to 1904 the forest fire laws were not enforced in Nova Scotia, and during this time Nova Scotia experienced very disastrous forest fires, than in a single County swept over 40,000 acres. Fires
. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. Canadian Foreslri/ Journal, November, 1917 1389. Hauling Out Logs on a New Brunswick Timber Limit Nova Scotia's Forest Position By F. C. Whitman Annapolis Royal, Formerly President, Canadian Forestry Assoc. Deteriorating Source of Wood Supplies Runs Up Production of Fishing and Farming Costs. In the early "nineties" and up to 1904 the forest fire laws were not enforced in Nova Scotia, and during this time Nova Scotia experienced very disastrous forest fires, than in a single County swept over 40,000 acres. Fires in the Province scorched thousands of acres of woodland and its effect is plainly marked to-day. It will take years for this land to come back again to a producing con- dition. I am pleased to say that it is coming back and what was a short time ago a blackened territory is now green again with the natural production of forest trees. In the County mentioned reckoning the 40,- 000 acres at the low estimate of 500 feet of lumber to the acre, it means a loss of twenty millions of feet that would have cut a million feet annually and have made a distribution of ten thousand dollars a year in wages. It will take forty years at the very least before this burnt over land can be expected to give a reasonable cut of wood. These fires awakened the public to the necessity of putting the fire laws in force, and the Government on being urged, passed an Act in 1904 for the Protection of Woods Against Fires, and with amendments this Act is now in force in most of the Coun-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Canadian Forestry Association. [Ottawa] : Canadian Forestry Association
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